rebuff

How To Use rebuff In A Sentence

• Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest. Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen
• Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog. CHAPTER XXXIV
• When two men pulled up in a station wagon, the girls rebuffed their sexual advances.
• For the next two hours, the bold captain stayed below, eating and drinking, rebuffing nervous passengers and becoming more and more brusque and abusive to anyone who remonstrated with him.
• Spurs have already rebuffed twice by after bidding 6m Downing two years ago. The Sun
• Temperature didn't much affect the initial probability of getting beaned, a rebuff to the theory that it's harder to control pitches on hot days. Week in Ideas
• People who know that rebuffs are expectable and that failure is remediable - that it results from lack of effort or situational factors and not personal inadequacy - are not debilitated by setbacks.
• Atkinson also rebuffed a plea from Wilson to speed things up.
• Such an attitude expects no rebuffs and overlooks those it provokes.
• The dollar's attempted strong upward thrust was for now largely rebuffed in volatile currency trading.