Sentence examples for declined him from inspiring English sources
The phrase “declined him” is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone politely refused a request or offer. For example, "The candidate was offered a job, but he declined him out of loyalty to his current employer."
We declined him his writ.
When in 1950 Hayek joined the University of Chicago, a stronghold of free-market theory, he taught in the newly created Committee on Social Thought, not as he had hoped in the economics faculty, which politely declined him a post.Vindication, however, came to this dry, dogged Austrian in his 70s, by when academic economists and policymakers were belatedly taking note.
Jay Roach read the expanded script and expressed his desire to direct the film but Universal declined him.
On to the United States Supreme Court Husted went, and in one unanimous sentence they declined him.
But what of any other teams not picking him up in the next 24 hours, or the Rams declining him for its practice squad, and the possibility that he won't make any practice squad?
To suggest, as McCloskey and Conway do, that these women had no agency in their work with Bailey, no ability to decline him, is to treat them as children.
I declined to correct him on the inappropriate use of "we".
I declined, asking him whether it was truly illegal in Switzerland to take pictures of the police.
I declined, wished him luck and retreated to my apartment at the other end of the hallway.
On November 1, Huff's $10 million club option was declined, making him a free agent.
I declined; telling him that it was too early I had just started labour … and I thought to myself since I delivered on my own for the first pregnancy.
