How to Use reject in a Sentence

reject

1 of 2 verb

• The college rejects hundreds of applicants each year.
• The produce inspector rejected several crates of berries that had begun to grow mold.
• My teacher rejected my excuse for being late.
• The committee rejected my proposal.
• We rejected 5 of the 10 job applicants right away.
• Trump has already been rejected by the voters once and impeached by the House twice.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• And when one item on a truck is rejected, the entire truck is rejected.
  — Liz Cheney, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
• Talks for the release of the hostages have reportedly been rejected by both sides, at least for now.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2023
• Shaffer said Wold asked him for a quote for work on the building but rejected it as too costly.
  — CBS News, 1 June 2023
• This is 007 territory, not the usual world of mangy MI5 rejects that the show has so adeptly built up.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2023
• After Riley rejected the idea, Falchuk pitched a more toned down angle for the scene.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• The agency backed off this year after a federal judge in San Jose rejected its request to halt the deal.
  — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• The board ultimately voted 5-4 on April 24 to reject that deal.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2023
• Finally, tap twice to answer or end a call, or press and hold to reject an incoming call.
  — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
• All of those requests have been rejected by judges, according to court records.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• In November, voters in Richmond rejected the idea to host the state’s fifth casino for the second time in three years.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Iowa Republicans, after all, were some of the few voters in the party to reject Mr. Trump in the 2016 primary.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• The federation would not risk calling up anyone who might reject the olive branch.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• In that case from 2017, the state appeals court rejected the plaintiff’s request for attorney fees.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
• In September, the state Senate in a party-line vote rejected the appointment of Wolfe.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2024
• District Judge David Alan Ezra agreed, rejecting both the age verification rule and the health disclaimer.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
• Designs that looked too much like something out of Jim Henson’s workshop were rejected.
  — Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
• This isn’t the first time Beverly Hills voters rejected a hotel.
  — John Gittelsohn, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• The Florida Games reads like an idea for a Carl Hiaasen novel rejected by the publisher as too outlandish.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• While the organs functioned and the first did not appear to be rejected, both of the patients, who had advanced disease, died shortly afterward.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Chamisa, 45, had been upbeat about victory, and has now rejected the results announced by the electoral body.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
• On their first day of school, the students were met with an angry White mob that rejected integrated schools and the National Guard blocking the entrance.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
• Bids for that work came in over budget and were rejected Monday by commissioners.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
• The justices on Friday rejected an emergency appeal seeking to force a change in the admissions process at West Point.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• How could a woman like Molly, who would have known in her bones the fear that comes with being pregnant and unmarried in a small, socially repressive country, reject her son’s lover and unborn child, and thereby inflict that terror on someone else?
  — Maggie Doherty, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024

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reject

2 of 2 noun

• Stack the promising applications here, and put the rejects over there.
• The four rejects who do the best will move back into the house.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• One, though, might soon be destined for the reject shelf.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2019
• The hostess is often left with the rejects: broken cookies and lots of crumbs.
  — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2019
• The house was quickly cast into the reject pile, as the couple resumed the search but found nothing.
  — Scott Sowers, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
• And this is right at the heart of how dating apps lead you to behave — see a photo and swipe right for ‘like’ or left for ‘reject’.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Looking like a reject from Spinal Tap, MacLachlan seems to be having a lot of fun with this role.
  — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 30 May 2017
• That is a pretty high bar, though logic might suggest there are some gems among the rejects.
  — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• In a nation obsessed with soccer, most of the 84 members are rejects from their school teams.
  — Matt Blomberg, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• Rejects are left to pick up street magic in the gritty confines of Brooklyn.
  — Doug Stumpf, HWD, 27 Jan. 2017
• Once just a reject, Jade now becomes the town’s resident kook and more than a little bit of a menace.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
• In the context of a bouncy showtune, though, the sentiment feels like a Hallmark reject.
  — Hampton Stevens, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
• Those who serve in Congress must be wary of, and reject, proposals that would further politicize the Court and add to the decline in the public’s trust in it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Recent polls show that the reject option is leading approval by 10 points.
  — Axel Kaiser, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Progress itself is scorned; workers on a dock reject a crane that would make their tasks more efficient.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• So, men that have had it in their genital area and any of their limbs have been kind of suffering in silence and kind of feeling like a reject in a sense.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019
• Jones, who also saved the English-language 'Diary of Anne Frank' from the reject pile, died yesterday at age 93.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2017
• Critics of the law say it is being used to crush dissent, which authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong reject.
  — NBC News, 10 June 2019
• The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has tried in the past to rinse away the fish’s reputation as a dirty kitchen-reject.
  — John Flesher, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2022
• Cuomo wasn't just another Michael Avenatti from the hot take reject pile.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 10 Aug. 2021
• Radamel Falcao, that reject of both Manchester United and Chelsea descent, was up first.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2019
• The good news is that the Elections Department is all caught up on rejects and requests for new applications, according to Callanen.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 2018
• Sometimes the fruit and vegetables aren’t aesthetic rejects.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2018
• The bag, which is a reject, is symbolic of the type of follow-through that has grown this tiny local golf bag company into world renowned provider of high-quality premium products.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2018
• The Golden Knights like to see themselves as a bunch of rejects who carry a chip on their collective shoulders because they were discarded and doomed to the cruel fate of playing for an expansion team.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 19 May 2018
• Swift tries out her blaccent alongside Future and Ed Sheeran, on a track that sounds unmistakably like a Rihanna reject.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• Twitterverse has done it once again, gifting America the dazzling crossover of glove meme, unstable nerd, and Mickey Mouse Club reject.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2021
• While some political observers feared — and polls suggested — voters might storm the ballot box in a frothing, burn-it-all-down, reject-everything kind of mood, that’s not what happened.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2022
• Some supporters of urban cycling reject or question the value of helmets as a protective measure.
  — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Non-playable characters ragdolled around like reject mannequins.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024