Turned down (offer)

Usage examples of refused.

Captain Nekrasov refused to accommodate me, but his sergeant proved far more generous with the facts.

Jeanneney and Herriot respectively, refused to attend the social functions accorded the Nazi visitor.

What it had refused the Allies the year before it accorded to Nazi Germany.

Bass refused, usually because Enron wanted accounting results divorced from economics.

It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.

NSA was the unwanted stepchild of powerful spymasters such as Allen Dulles, who refused its director a seat on the Intelligence Advisory Committee.

It is a very ancient reproach, suggested by the ignorance or the malice of infidelity, that the Christians allured into their party the most atrocious criminals, who, as soon as they were touched by a sense of remorse, were easily persuaded to wash away, in the water of baptism, the guilt of their past conduct, for which the temples of the gods refused to grant them any expiation.

The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refused the payment of the accustomed subsidies.

Congress of the United States, which failed or refused to exercise its power and authority to annul the same.

Reichstag refused to renew the antisocialist laws, Engels looked confidently to these two disciples to lead the SPD on the right course.

Restoration, but for a long time I refused to believe that his influence should have outweighed all the serious considerations opposed to such a perfect anomaly as appointing Fouche the Minister of a Bourbon.

Benvenuto Cellini, the young sculptor who had refused to be apprenticed to Torrigiani.

And she had coolly refused to allow him to assuage so much as a twinge of his guilt.

Signing the last autograph, she tactfully refused the politely couched offers to buy her a drink and turned away from the swarm of theater-goers, who converged on the city streets like a plague of taxi-preying locusts closing in on their next meal.

And, after the banket done, these maskers came in, with six gentlemen disguised in silke, bearing staffe torches, and desired the ladies to danse: some were content, and some refused.