refusing

Example Sentences

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They asked to meet him that evening, refusing to tell him the reason over the phone.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Workers were demanding salary increases, protection against subcontracting and job loss through automation, and were refusing to comply with FIFA’s request to collect sensitive private information such as nationality and home addresses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Living in separate homes, acting as if your house is a teenage crash pad and refusing to make any changes to his habits treats you like girlfriend/boyfriend rather than husband/wife.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

“I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting,” Alfonsi told the New York Times of her firing.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

He saw now how that had served him: In refusing to defend himself, he’d failed to defend Deadwood.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman