Example sentences for: refutes

How can you use “refutes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finkelstein handily refutes Goldhagen's claim that German anti-Semitism is all that's required to explain the Holocaust.

  • Posner feels free to offer conclusions of fact that the public record either cannot sustain or actually refutes."

  • The New York Times Book Review assigned Jeffrey Record to review the book, which seems an odd choice considering that Record just published a book titled The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam . Record predictably refutes Sorley's thesis ("How does one explain Saigon's fall when, according to Sorley, we had won the war by late 1971?"

  • An article refutes the accepted wisdom that Klaus Fuchs and David Greenglass leaked the first atomic secrets to the Soviets.

  • The purity of Bernini’s work here refutes the popular conception of Baroque as being nothing but overblown extravagance.


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