Sample Sentences forrebuff (auto-selected)
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I couldn't figure out why my cousin would want to exchange his Yiddish name—which in English means Joseph—for the Polish version, but the teacher's rebuff didn't surprise me.† (source)
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I was not sure what could be accomplished by means of tenacity and little else, but the target was set high and each rebuff only saw me more determined to see at least one major dream through to itsfulfillment.† (source)
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If she argued with a neighbor constantly over a barking dog, if she was forced to rebuff a flirty guy, whatever you got, I need.† (source)
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I wondered whether the colonel would take this rebuff; so did he.† (source)
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Startled, at first abashed, Charles blushed at the rebuff and then, seeing how her eyes were fastened on his sister, he smiled.† (source)
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Dr. Sasaki, never in his life having experienced such a rebuff, had decided that this was the girl for him, and with the help of two persistent go-betweens he had eventually won the wary parent over.† (source)
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He would eventually come to be rebuffed by his own body at least as much as by hers.† (source)
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Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feeling.† (source)
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Popchik alone was happy; it was rare we had so much company in the house and he ran from person to person, undiscouraged by repeated rebuffs.† (source)
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Having no excuse for lingering longer, I slipped out, while Linton was engaged in timidly rebuffing the advances of a friendly sheep-dog.† (source)
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"Oh——" Lily murmured reproachfully; but Mrs. Fisher pressed on unrebuffed.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrebuffed means not and reverses the meaning of rebuffed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The judge rebuffed him and sent the jury, including Mrs. Tyo, back into deliberations.† (source)
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I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.† (source)
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(He starts to kiss her, she rebuffs him again and he jumps up) BENEATHA: Why are you angry, George† (source)
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She sounded so disappointed-and looked so forlorn-Eragon felt guilty for rebuffing her.† (source)
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"Lady Artemis rebuffed him, of course," Phoebe said.† (source)
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