For he refuses to say anything himself to the police.
The treadle refuses to have any part or parcel in the performance; and I don't know how to get the roller to turn with the paper.
Then, if Government refusesto pay the rent on your new office we can do it ourselves.
The sulky giant, brought thus into captivity, refuses to bend his proud, stubborn heart into even a form of submission.
He refuses to give up the prisoners on any grounds whatsoever, and Bobadilla has to take the fortress by assault--an easy enough matter since the resistance is but formal.
Thus the horse refuses the water hemlock, which the goat will eat: the goat will not feed on monkshood, but the horse eats it with avidity.
Whoever refuses to restore property to one to whom he knows it belongs by right, is a thief.
In the absence of the Prince of Orange we have chosen him as our leader; if the Duke of Alva refuses the proposals which we are going to put before him, Mark will lead us to fight or to death.
Yet your Highness refusesto take me with you," said Laurence with gentle reproach.
And then the weak body refuses to support the dauntless spirit.
But she refuses all, and wearily follows Mamma from the room.
The king cannot step on an acre which the peasant refuses to sell.
The barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
The spot, the gray blocks, and their rude order, which refuses to be disposed of, suggested to him the flight of ages, and the succession of religious.
In some cases, it is the personification itself who refuses to operate in darkness.
He refuses to accept the explanations which the personifications offer of themselves: they claim to be human beings who have once lived on earth.
Each individual refuses to participate in exposure of such offences, for the same reason that he refuses to keep the street clean even before his own door--he has already paid for having such work discharged by proxy.
Doubtless this argument, when addressed to an Atheist, loses its force; because herefuses to assume a God.
Only the joys that have been offered to all, and none have accepted, will knock at his door who refuses himself to stir forth.
At Elsinore there is not a soul but refuses to see, and hence the catastrophe; but a soul that is quick with life will compel those around it to open their eyes.
Not only, then, does Bentham fail to infer that certain principles of guidance must by this time have been ascertained, but he refuses to recognize these principles as actually reached and present to him.
Crockett is asked to visit Harvard College, but refuses for quaint reasons of his own.
A progressive Republican, son of a famous father, refusesthe chairmanship to quiet suspicion of personal ambition, and the office goes to a Southern Democrat of whose party the gathering is in complete ignorance.
He refuses to enter into a contest with Colonel Lindsley in any way.
In what a light will these mediating Courts appear, after having listened to a proposition of England, so far as to make propositions themselves, and to refer to them in many public acts, if Britain refuses to agree to them?
Mr Jay refuses to treat with the Spanish Minister without exchanging powers.
Congress refuses General Carleton's request of a passport for his Secretary.
Mrs. Stanley presents some kitchen furniture, and gives a wedding dinner; and the rector refuses his fee for performing the ceremony.
A few ostentatious charities are opposed as a large atonement for a few amiable weaknesses, while the unpaid tradesman is exposed to ruin by their vengeance if he refuses to trust them, and to a jail if he continue to do it.
But Vasichtha refuses to part with her for a hundred million other cows or for fulness of silver.
And when his son refuses the exchange, he pronounces on him the following curse, "Henceforth shalt thou be for many years a wanderer and outcast, and despised like to a dealer in dog's flesh.
Where such a class supplies labour, the ruling element generally despises and refuses manual work.
Any one taking up automatic-pistol shooting seriously should go to a gunmaker and learn all about its mechanism so that he will know what is wrong when the pistol refuses to operate.
Hero-worship is our favourite cult; woe to that man who refuses to burn incense before it!
It is a name she refuses to own," he returned quietly.
He spoke with the coolness of the well-bred Englishman, who refuses to give himself away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
