Reject is an English word with synonyms like refuse or decline. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Reject in a sentence
Related words
Reject meaning
- To refuse to accept; to forswear.
- To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- To refuse a romantic advance.
Synonyms of Reject
Using Reject
- The main meaning on this page is: To refuse to accept; to forswear. | To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. | To refuse a romantic advance.
- Useful related words include: refuse, turn down, decline, accept.
- In the example corpus, reject often appears in combinations such as: to reject, reject the, or reject.
Example sentences (20)
For them, masks are seen as “a symbol of those who reject expert authority, who reject health science, reject government notions of what you should do,” he says, similar to anti-vaccine activists.
However, culture and tradition is not something you hold to or reject wholesale; we must be selective in choosing what to keep and what to reject.
We need to reject that effort in Maryland and reject it across the country.
Women reject him because of his dick size (he thinks) and then reject him further when he fails to eat them out properly.
The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids; reserve the right to waive irregularities in bidding procedure; to award to the lowest and best bidder and to reject any and all bids that are obviously irregular.
One characteristic of the test is its crisp decision: to reject or not reject the null hypothesis.
The decision rule is to reject the null hypothesis H 0 if the observed value t obs is in the critical region, and to accept or "fail to reject" the hypothesis otherwise.
They reject collectivist economics arguing that remuneration would require a type of currency, which, again, anarcho-communists reject as an artificial measurement of the value of labor.
Abortion rights advocates said this week that they would appeal a decision by a Nevada judge to reject a 2024 ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
A consultative ballot by Unison in April saw an overwhelming majority (96.9%) voting to reject the plans to downgrade their posts with more than 9 in 10 (91%) voting in favour of industrial action.
Across the networks, executives put off deciding whether to reject pilots of several proposed new shows or order a full season of episodes, calls that are usually made by May.
Adding a provision to state law, for example, that allows the secretary of state, after consultation with the state attorney general, to reject initiative petitions that don’t comply with the U.S. or Maine constitutions could help.
Additionally, Meta had the authority to reject data requests that infringed on users' privacy rights.
A labour researcher says he hopes the federal government doesn't rush to intervene in British Columbia's port dispute, even if union members reject a tentative deal with employers Friday.
And if that court is to preserve its integrity, it must, unanimously, reject the Colorado Supreme Court’s judgment.
And so, I think for a long time, people felt that being a feminist meant somehow to reject everything to do with feminity.
Another solid performance amid heckles of 'Leicester reject'.
Arab Envoys Reject Blinken’s Call for Limited War Pause in Gazabloomberg.
As faithful Catholics, the Burkes believe that children should be loved and supported, and they would never reject a child placed in their home, the lawsuit says.
A state senator is seeking a change in Massachusetts law that would strip the Boston City Council of its authority to approve public safety grants, after the body’s “embarrassing” vote to reject $13.3 million in federal counter-terrorism funding.
Common combinations with reject
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to reject 103×
- reject the 47×
- or reject 12×
- reject it 12×
- and reject 10×
- reject any 9×
- will reject 9×
- who reject 6×
- reject this 5×
- reject that 4×