Sentence examples for i declined it from inspiring English sources

I declined; it wasn't the way I wanted to go.

I declined: it was late and he was tired, and more than a little depressed.

"It's so competitive that if I declined it, I wouldn't be accepted again because there are so many applicants," O'Day said.

With the Tim Jonze inteview, the Award was offered once again, this time with the added request that I headline their forthcoming awards concert at the O2 Arena, and once again I declined it.

I was offered the opportunity, as all judges of the Man Booker prize were, and I declined it on the grounds that I like to feel a book, see the look of it.

He eschewed curtains and recoiled in dismay from the idea of a doormat: "As I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door.

He added, according to one student's notes, that Mr. Woodward "had asked me to give him some color," about the meetings, but, "I declined -- it did not feel right".

I declined, thinking it unethical for him to use his insight to give someone a leg up in gambling.

Back in college, when I was asked to take part in a protest, I declined because it conflicted with Uncle Duke Day, an annual keg and marijuana bash.

This second friend took a few, but I declined, believing it wrong of friend No. 1 to pass along these letters.

When I declined this payment it told me it would come out of my wage the next month.