REJECTION in a Sentence

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93 example sentences for REJECTION, such as:
1. The appeal was rejected by the High Court.
2. These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.
3. Women tend to personalise rejection more than men.
4. He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.
5. The plan was decisively rejected by Congress three weeks ago.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REJECTION
rejection
 n.  the state of being rejected
 n.  the act of rejecting something
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  Moreover, the recollection of the rejection and the part he had played in the affair tortured him with shame.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
2  And with these memories was now ranged his rejection and the pitiful position in which he must have appeared to others that evening.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
3  The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
4  To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  An understanding of what such domination would mean, and of the disadvantages accruing from her rejection of it, was brought home to Lily with increasing clearness during the early weeks of the winter.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
6  Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin, leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter rejection of his so earnest suit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
7  Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  He now understood for the first time all the cruelty of his rejection of her, the cruelty of his rupture with her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
9  He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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.
15  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
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.
2  This will involve the sending of rejection letters or invitations to interview detailing time, place and other arrangements.
3  These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.
4  The response of the audience varied from outright rejection to warm hospitality.
5  Women tend to personalise rejection more than men.
6  Corsica's narrow rejection of the new regional assembly is a bitter disappointment, especially for the French interior minister Nicholas Sarkozy, who'd campaigned hard for change.
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.