"decline" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), under pressure from his government, reluctantly declined the Nobel Prize that he won in 1958.
- His Catholicism and the opposition of her mother Queen Charlotte meant the Princess reluctantly declined the offer.
- The band reluctantly declined in favour of saving new songs for the planned album.
- The inspector hesitated, then declined somewhat reluctantly.
- Five minutes later, reluctantly declining to stay for lunch, Tarrant took his leave.
- Pressed to marry Liat by her mother, Bloody Mary, Cable reluctantly declines, realizing that the Asian girl would never be accepted by his family or Philadelphia society.
- Hyde reluctantly declined to attend.
- When the Indian government asked him to help rebuild a village that had been displaced by a dam, he reluctantly declined.
- As he was only 15 years-old at the time he reluctantly declined, however, he was persuaded at the second time of asking a few weeks later.
- In 1947, Finland reluctantly declined Marshall aid in order to preserve good relations with the Soviets, ensuring Finnish autonomy.
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