On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Deny. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as contradict or control and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Deny meaning
- To disallow or reject.
- To assert that something is not true.
- To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
Synonyms of Deny
Using Deny
- The main meaning on this page is: To disallow or reject. | To assert that something is not true. | To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
- Useful related words include: contradict, control, abnegate, allow.
- In the example corpus, deny often appears in combinations such as: to deny, deny the, deny that.
Context around Deny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deny
- In this selection, "deny" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, try, cannot, party, having, tinnion and others stand out and add context to how "deny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include politicians who deny the legitimacy and and to deny the american. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deny" sits close to words such as associates, diagnosis and emotions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With Christ and the Word being interchangeable to deny the Word is to deny Christ. (15 words)
All eight defendants deny charges of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter over the deaths. (16 words)
Additionally, the memo contended that it may be successful to deny Joe Biden the verified electors he need to win. (20 words)
After junior Emma Blanchette missed wide on a header off a corner and Pausman made another pretty save, lunging to deny Ouellette, Djuranovic completed her tour de force with 12:07 on the clock, again heading home a Fravert corner kick to make it 4-0. (46 words)
But he felt we couldn't go another year without a rap act." citation The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation would later deny fixing the vote, although they did not deny that late votes were received, saying, "No. (40 words)
ADL rated 10 social media and game companies on their efforts to enforce rules and effectively respond to and remove content, memes and messages that deny the Holocaust or use conspiracy theories about it to spread antisemitic beliefs. (38 words)
After being caught lying, no less — apparently she tried to deny she was watching her son ski next to her when the crash happened, but his ski instructor spilled the beans! (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Shane Bland twice made himself big to deny Tinnion, firstly with a save from point-blank range, before he got down low to deny the Workington attacker.
You can distract yourself and you can deny and deny all you want, but it’ll still be there,” Gomez advised.
But, surely, so does the Israeli side – there are Israeli politicians who deny the legitimacy of Palestine, just as there are Palestinian politicians who deny the legitimacy of Israel.
Every Republican vote against this bill is a vote to deny the financial hardship that families face and to deny the American people the relief they need.
They want to deny others the choices to live free as they are but try & deny them special rights is somehow as turned into wanting to commit genocide on them.
With Christ and the Word being interchangeable to deny the Word is to deny Christ.
But he felt we couldn't go another year without a rap act." citation The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation would later deny fixing the vote, although they did not deny that late votes were received, saying, "No.
It also implies that one party of a transaction cannot deny having received a transaction nor can the other party deny having sent a transaction.
Kierkegaard does not deny the fruitfulness or validity of abstract thinking (science, logic, and so on), but he does deny any superstition which pretends that abstract theorizing is a sufficient concluding argument for human existence.
Reductionism should be distinguished from eliminationism: reductionists do not deny the existence of phenomena, but explain them in terms of another reality; eliminationists deny the exist of the phenomena themselves.
The philosophical pessimist does not deny that certain areas like science can "progress" but they deny that this has resulted in an overall improvement of the human condition.
Additionally, the memo contended that it may be successful to deny Joe Biden the verified electors he need to win.
ADL rated 10 social media and game companies on their efforts to enforce rules and effectively respond to and remove content, memes and messages that deny the Holocaust or use conspiracy theories about it to spread antisemitic beliefs.
After being caught lying, no less — apparently she tried to deny she was watching her son ski next to her when the crash happened, but his ski instructor spilled the beans!
After junior Emma Blanchette missed wide on a header off a corner and Pausman made another pretty save, lunging to deny Ouellette, Djuranovic completed her tour de force with 12:07 on the clock, again heading home a Fravert corner kick to make it 4-0.
A guard can supply a woman with her allotment of pads, but deny her the underwear she needs in order to wear the pad in the first place.
Akbari’s devastated family deny he was a spy and insist he is the victim of an internal power struggle within the regime.
All eight defendants deny charges of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter over the deaths.
All four were arrested in April 2021 by the military regime and subsequently sentenced to death for a murder they deny committing.
Allstate said it continues to deny the allegations of wrongdoing, that it violated any law, or that the class suffered any losses.
Common combinations with deny
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to deny 87×
- deny the 39×
- deny that 26×
- can deny 13×
- deny them 11×
- not deny 11×
- and deny 7×
- or deny 7×
- deny it 7×
- deny any 5×