How to Use denial in a Sentence

denial

noun

• She issued a flat denial of the charges made against her.
• The hardest part of the punishment was the denial of his right to see his children.
• The group is protesting the denial of voting rights to convicted felons.
• The lawyers were disappointed by the court's denial of their motion to dismiss the case.
• The accusations have met with angry denials from school officials.
• The city government has been heavily criticized for its denial of the seriousness of the situation.
• Hope for me is not some empty wish that nothing negative in life existed, nor a denial of it.
  — Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
• The Philadelphia County court did not provide any additional detail on the denial.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Nov. 2024
• Aya Cash is still in denial about the end of You're the Worst.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 May 2019
• With the denial, the judge set a trial to start on Oct. 28.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• So how does the Greek Freak's denial stack up against the best ever?
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
• The response is to just deepen the denial and dig in all the harder.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2018
• The court did not issue opinions in any of the three denials.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• But election denial doesn't have to be seen as a means to an end.
  — NBC News, 13 Nov. 2022
• This may be the most outright denial that fans will get.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 July 2022
• Some are already there, but many more have their heads deep in the sands of denial.
  — Sara Zeff Geber, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• So your brother-in-law has the hots for you, and your husband is in denial.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• The denial of the permit request was appealed to the Quorum Court.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 22 Sep. 2023
• Yet for millions of people around the world, that denial wasn’t clear enough.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• The rest of the commission agreed and voted 4-0 for denial.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• And the only way to appeal a denial is to sue for records in court, which can be costly.
  — al, 16 Sep. 2020
• The other denials have gained no credence in the media.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 July 2018
• The former could lead to a claim denial, the latter to being charged with one or more crimes.
  — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• Even my in-denial parents could only pretend not to smell the smoke that clung to the weft of my sweater.
  — Nicole Walker, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• There seems to be a denial of the need to bring new generations into the mix.
  — Graham Ward, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• The nail-pulling is bad, but the denial of reality is worse.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2021
• The denials would have been accepted by a lot of people.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 25 June 2018
• The buildup of denial that covers everything in their house like a film.
  — Samy Burch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Blonde, by contrast, is playing it safe and in denial about it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• The judges’ denials would have made the name change proceedings public.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2019

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024