"refuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Nicholas sternly refused, reproaching his uncle for asking him to break his coronation oath to maintain autocratic power intact for his successors.
- I begged Mother for another dime so I could buy a piece of pie, but she sternly refused.
- He led the way, admonishing: --We will sternly refuse to partake of strong waters, will we not?
- When President Johnson sternly refused, Mr. Kosygin indicated the Soviet Union would settle for "the territories occupied."
- Offered a settlement that would have retrieved half the gold, Moreira sternly refused - and has not had any of it back.
- Sir Danvers sternly refuses Jekyll's request.
- With this arbitrary command the University sternly refused to comply.
- Ricky sternly refuses and asks to hear nothing more of it.
- I asked the Voivode to allow me to transfer it to him, but he sternly refused and forbade me, quite peremptorily, to ever open the subject to him again.
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