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Discover LudwigThe phrase "declined having" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when someone or something turns down a request or offer. For example, "He declined having dinner with us because he had other plans."
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She thought for two weeks, and then declined, having decided to direct it herself.
The pilot offered to do a vertical dive but Smith declined, having seen too many such dives from the ground.
He even condescended to challenge me a while back; I politely declined, having suffered too often at his hands over the decades.
When the MoCADA curator Elliott Brown asked Garner to do a performance to accompany the exhibition, she declined, having tired of literally putting her body on display for art.
All participants also declined having the sessions audio-recorded.
Then Cleveland was being thrown around, but they have since declined having interest.
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The decline has been startling.
"It (the decline) has happened.
This educational decline has a racial edge.
Now decline has become near-disaster.
Venezuela's decline has been swift.
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