DENY in a Sentence

Learn DENY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
220 example sentences for DENY, such as:
1. Better deny at once than promise long.
2. He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
3. I don't deny that it is smartly written.
4. No one can deny the fact that fire burns.
5. They were denied access to the information.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DENY
deny
 v.  refuse to let have
 v.  deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
Classic Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
1  I don't deny that it is smartly written.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Snowball did not deny that to build it would be a difficult business.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  You couldn't very well deny him, poor fellow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  I may not deny," said the Prior, crossing himself, "that such things have been, and have been of Heaven; but then such communications have had a visibly useful scope and tendency.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  I may not deny what thou hast challenged," said the Grand Master, "provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  It's the factory-owner's ideal in a nut-shell; except that he would deny that the driving power was hate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  'I deny that Bolshevism is logical, it rejects the major part of the premisses,' said Hammond.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  I shall not welcome your sister, but I shall not deny her the door.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  She could not deny it, but said it was not very bad.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  'Not I,' said Monks, turning away his eyes and beating his foot upon the ground, as a man who is determined to deny everything.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  She was assisted, however, by that perfect indifference and apparent unconsciousness, among the only three of her own friends in the secret of the past, which seemed almost to deny any recollection of it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  When Mortimer told me your name he could not deny your identity.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
13  He did not attempt to deny that he had acted as described upon the evening before, but declared that he had no sinister designs, and had simply wished to obtain first-hand information.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
14  He could not deny the justice of my request, so with a rather rueful face he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
15  The servants deny having seen it before, but among the numerous curiosities in the house it is possible that it may have been overlooked.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  The White House was swift to deny the rumours.
2  Better deny at once than promise long.
3  Both deny conspiring to cause actual bodily harm.
4  The spokesman refused either to confirm or deny the reports.
5  No one can deny the fact that fire burns.
6  He had the hardihood to deny the fact.
7  Those who deny freedom to others hardly deserve it for themselves.
8  His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them.
9  It's only too easy for them to deny responsibility.
10  If anyone accuses me I shall simply deny it.
11  What I do deny is that we have been inconsistent with respect to our view of the Constitution
12  The inquisitors used both physical and psychological coercion to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.
13  And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you? Little nervous subject! Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness! You say you love me, Janet: yes -- I will not forget that; and you cannot deny it.
14  Access to the information was denied to them.
15  They were denied access to the information.