refuse

Example Sentences

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But his Artega tribe, which has administered the city since the sixth century with powers "passed from father to son", refused to leave.

From Barron's

"I've tried to make contact with my son more than once, but he refuses to reply."

From BBC

“They absolutely refused to accept the argument that the committee is independent,” Harpviken said.

From The Wall Street Journal

In one fifth season episode she even goes to jail for refusing to reveal a source.

From Salon

Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.

From The Wall Street Journal