How to Use rebuff in a Sentence

rebuff

verb

• The company rebuffed the bid.
• She rebuffed him when he asked her for a date.
• Our suggestion was immediately rebuffed.
• Within a few days, the state health department reached out to the man but was rebuffed.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• But he was rebuffed by the judge, who said Trump’s lawyers needed to comply with the order from Chutkan.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Through their lawyers, Spiegel and Murphy rebuffed Brown’s claims.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• But states run by Democrats have rebuffed such efforts.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Though China has rebuffed the idea of a side meeting this year, Austin and Li could still cross paths.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 30 May 2023
• Biden has rebuffed those calls, and vowed to stay in the 2024 race against former President Trump.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 10 July 2024
• When a group of Woburn teachers showed up at her office on the fifth day of the strike, an aide rebuffed their efforts to meet with her.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Then the Patriots rebuffed the Eagles on fourth and 2 at the New England 44.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• That lesson helped steel her resolve to rebuff pressure to go along just to get along.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2022
• Mice and chimps seem to have the scent smarts to know immediately who to befriend and who to rebuff.
  — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
• The district court rebuffed that claim, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• Thus, the Dodgers turned their attention to Rodriguez — only to be rebuffed by the pitcher.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• They were routinely rebuffed; and in late-2013, the door was again firmly closed by a high-ranking dean.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 4 May 2020
• An appeals court judge rebuffed Trump’s push to pause the New York trial, but agreed to leave him in control of his holdings for now.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• By the time warriors reached the agency, Ojibwe scouts told them the whites were well prepared to rebuff any attack, and it was called off.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• Do as little as possible to control the site and rebuff any demands to change it.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• In the nineteen-fifties, another tycoon wanted to build the world’s tallest skyscraper there, but was rebuffed by the banks.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• But Harris, who had a boyfriend in Richmond, rebuffed him, which led to a deadly struggle.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Zelenskyy sought to return to Cannes last year but was rebuffed.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 14 May 2024
• Truth rebuffed Mysterio and the Judgment Day by refusing to give him a chair.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• When the base’s commander rebuffed them, Burchett and Luna accused him of a cover-up.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Nordhoff tries for himself later that same year, but he, too, is rebuffed.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• The state rebuffed the lawyers’ efforts to use the fees as seed money for a new technology system.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The former question remains to be answered, but the latter is fully rebuffed by the rest of this week’s box-office top three.
  — Vulture, 19 Mar. 2023
• And The Times’ efforts to talk with their ski patrollers, who usually are the first responders to accidents on the slopes, were rebuffed.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Russia's defense ministry initially claimed to have rebuffed the Ukrainian attack and forced them to retreat.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The development comes after a federal judge last week rebuffed Disney’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024