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.
• But he's been gone a long time, and his entreaties are rebuffed.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Related made a bid to take over Ladder last year but was rebuffed.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• When the American ambassador tried to get Mr Manafort to rein him in, he was rebuffed.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
• The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear her child would face retaliation, said the town wouldn’t accept her lease and her complaints to the school were rebuffed.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
• Last year, Inver Grove Heights schools asked taxpayers two funding questions, but were rebuffed on both, by 53 percent and 54 percent.
  — Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024