REJECT in a Sentence

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93 example sentences for REJECT, such as:
1. The appeal was rejected by the High Court.
2. He would reject the idea of starting a war.
3. Such rejected or condemned animals shall at once.
4. state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned.
5. The plan was decisively rejected by Congress three weeks ago.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of REJECT
reject
 v.  resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
 v.  refuse to accept or acknowledge
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  For our parts, we reject this word uprisings as too large, and consequently as too convenient.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
2  However, we reject these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
3  He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which he had left, and would reject all food.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
4  If after six months she felt that she did not love him she would have full right to reject him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
5  The most important thing, if something was to be achieved, was to reject in advance any idea that he might be in any way guilty.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
6  He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
9  Miss Cathy rejected the peace-offering of the terrier, and demanded her own dogs, Charlie and Phoenix.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She placed a cushion under his head, and offered him some water; he rejected the latter, and tossed uneasily on the former, as if it were a stone or a block of wood.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
12  For a moment she considered asking him to lend her three hundred dollars, but wearily she rejected the idea.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  She had rejected Rosedale's suggestion with a promptness of scorn almost surprising to herself: she had not lost her capacity for high flashes of indignation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
14  Such rejected or condemned animals shall at once.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  He would reject the idea of starting a war.
2  A patient's immune system will frequently reject a skin graft from a donor.
3  Then put your money where your mouth is and reject all the socialist benefits you now enjoy.
4  Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work.
5  Today its executive committee voted unanimously to reject the proposals.
6  As previously suggested, a researcher is usually interested in setting up a hypothesis which he really would like to reject.
7  The plan was decisively rejected by Congress three weeks ago.
8  The strikers were being unreasonable in their demands, having rejected the deal two weeks ago.
9  The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
10  They gave me the tough job of telling applicants that they'd been rejected.
11  A call for a vote of no-confidence in the president was rejected.
12  She is a cancer sufferer who has rejected orthodox medicine and turned instead to acupuncture, aromatherapy and other forms of alternative medicine.
13  Congress has rejected the latest economic proposal put forward by the president.
14  The appeal was rejected by the High Court.
15  Their design was rejected in favour of one by a rival company.