rejected

How To Use rejected In A Sentence

• Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
• The Italian was rejected because of his weak grasp of English.
• An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
• Now that Gonzalez has rejected the Yankees, perhaps he can concentrate on turning a disappointing season into another banner year.
• The P. 's have now got the book, and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them -- _She_ looks like a rejected addresser. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
• After advice from the district valuer, they put in an offer of £200,000, which was rejected.
• Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
• The practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion rejected by the minds and hearts of men.
• One club rejected her application for membership on the grounds that she was too famous. Times, Sunday Times
• Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair