Sentence examples for to rebuff from inspiring English sources
verb
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
Saudi Arabia is the latest country to rebuff Washington.
Marks & Spencer continued to rebuff Mr. Green on Tuesday.
My repeated efforts to rebuff one character after misguidedly kissing him seemed to have no effect.
But erosion is a perennial enemy, and efforts to rebuff it, continual.
Yet Mr Clinton appeared to rebuff a request to increase American quotas for Bangladeshi clothing.
Elegance, and great expanses of painted boiserie, survive to rebuff the surveillance cameras.
Many entrepreneurs look at Facebook's ability to rebuff suitors as an inspiration to stay independent.
Q. Have you had to rebuff any advances from female classmates? A. That's not happened.
Others see a conscious maneuver to rebuff Europe now with the aim of extracting concessions later.
They called on Congress to rebuff the cuts — as lawmakers have in the past few years.
He told magistrates he was "afraid" of him and did not dare to rebuff him.
