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Example sentences for "rebutting"

Lexicographically close words:
rebus; rebuses; rebut; rebuttal; rebutted; recal; recalcitrant; recalcitrants; recalculated; recall
  1. Do not, therefore, require of me proceedings dishonorable in reference to myself, as well as criminal and impious in regard to you, especially at a moment when I am myself rebutting an accusation of impiety advanced by MelĂȘtus.

  2. Another method of rebutting the objection is based on the suggestion that Pithecanthropus is not a human ancestor in the direct line.

  3. By a curious coincidence, Professor Keith, in rebutting the whole hypothesis, makes a statement not irrelevant in this connexion.

  4. You will see how long you ought to persist in rebutting his follies.

  5. With regard to the estate which I am said to have purchased with so many thousands, I should indeed be silly if I spent many words in rebutting falsehoods so gross.

  6. When I was rebutting so stale a calumny, she began to ascribe even to the Holy Spirit what she had directed against us.

  7. She's gone too," said Hilda defiantly, and as though rebutting an accusation before it could be made.

  8. Rebutting the allegations that his personal interest was predominant, he offered his resignation as a proof that interest in the Republic was his chief thought.

  9. As long as he is in Harborough's company, the necessity for baffling his friend's stupid urgencies, the awkwardness of rebutting civilities so well meant, prevent him from realising the full intensity of his relief.

  10. Yet after the first accusation he offered good rebutting evidence.

  11. Strange to state, he firmly reiterated them, continuing to do so even when the fragments of the box and the plainly rebutting evidence were laid before him.

  12. He answered every question in an open, straightforward manner; but while admitting the facts of his courtship, as told by the wool-spinner, he could adduce no rebutting evidence in his own defence.

  13. Here the prosecution closed the presentation of the case in behalf of the government, reserving the right to introduce rebutting testimony.

  14. I hastened to the court-room with my important rebutting testimony," said he with a smile, "and you know the result.

  15. I request, uncle, that you will not lose one moment in rebutting these insinuations.

  16. The loyal owner, fired with indignation at this foul charge, rebutting the accusation with contempt.

  17. Mr Armstrong in their debates with Bradlaugh; both clergymen nevertheless supposing themselves to be rebutting utilitarianism.

  18. As the vagueness of these dates made it almost impossible to get rebutting evidence, Mr Bradlaugh demurred to the plea on this ground, and in March 1881 his demurrer was heard by Mr Justice Grove and Mr Justice Lindley.

  19. Equally illusory is the famous instance of rebutting a dilemma contained in the story of Protagoras and Euathlus (Aul.

  20. The most usual mode of rebutting a dilemma is by transposing and denying the consequents in the major-- If A is B, C is D; and if E is F, G is H.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.