Sentence examples for water refused from inspiring English sources
0345: Detainee offered food and water — refused.
The worst time was when their bore hole ran dry and Scottish Water refused to help them out.
Loggers tried their hand in the 1890's but quickly gave up after the felled trees, heavy with water, refused to float downriver to the sawmills.
By that time, their opponents, smelling blood in the water, refused to compromise, undercutting public officials like Republican Senator Bob Dole who had tried to find common ground with Senate Democrats on the Finance Committee.
There are even stories of anglers who, while sinking to their doom under the icy water, refuse to let go of their catch.
"Lord, protect me / from last times," she begs; but time is passing despite her best efforts to hold on to it, slipping through her fingers "like water refusing to freeze".
The carapace of violent noise that encases each song needs breaking before you can appreciate how fascinating it is musically: conventional song structures crumble beneath the weight of thundering riffs (I Am Dust), or sludgy chords (Everything Comes Down to This); in The Calling, bass and synths are like murky pools of oil and water, refusing to merge.
Willcox, reminding them they were a Dutch ship in international waters, refused.
Cross-border tensions escalated this year after four of 31 North Koreans who sailed into South Korean waters refused to return home.
I tried to order mineral water but our waiter refused to bring it.
