Sentence examples for away refuse from inspiring English sources

Miscreants could also be taken to court, where the maximum fine would be £2,500, if they fail to heed an initial warning to clear away refuse such as old sofas and fridges.

If the teacher decides to take your cellphone away, refuse to hand it over.

But he looks away, refuses to notice.

Then she dashed away, refusing to give her name.

After signing on to the Compact in 1922, Arizona backed away, refusing to ratify the deal and eventually dispatching its troops to prove a point.

I pestered my dad about the insurance, but he always waved me away, refusing to spend money on something he wasn't guaranteed to use.

For hours throughout the assault, the UN peacekeeping force stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate calls for help.

But unlike Riggan, the Birdman character who becomes obsessed by his superhero alter ego, Keaton walked away, refusing to make Batman 3 when Burton wasn't rehired as director.

But I did fall apart inside, quite comprehensively, and expressed it through withering away, refusing to eat; bearing, in Hilary Mantel's words, "smiling, skeletal witness" to the gap that had appeared between the old life and the new one.

Fired up by the rampant generosity I had encountered in my three veggie traders, I decided to take a new tack in my brokering: I would now simply give plants away, refusing both filthy lucre and the inherent smallness of the swapper's tit-for-tat worldview.

We've got troops' families living in sub-standard homes; we've got soldiers going into harm's way without the equipment they need; we've got businesses that instead of welcoming people in military uniform and honouring their service choose to turn them away, refusing them service.