Sentence examples for had been refusing from inspiring English sources

A handful of prisoners had been refusing food for a longer period.

He had been refusing food and contracted pneumonia, dying surrounded by his family on August 22.

Last year, Ljubica went to visit her son in jail; he had been refusing to eat, and was perilously thin.

Mr. Sharawneh, a resident of the West Bank, had been refusing food since July to protest his incarceration.

They had been refusing to talk taxes alone, because they wanted the cover of Republican support against President Reagan's attacks.

He had been refusing food since the verdict, but contracted pneumonia and "went rapidly downhill last weekend", they said.

I had been refused.

So many likable things had been refused.

Meighen was given the dissolution that King had been refused.

Mr. Luce said he had been refused a new card.

Within minutes, she reported, the note had been refused.