How to Use rejection in a Sentence

rejection

noun
  • The rejections could take place in days instead of a process that can take years.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • There’s a certain rejection of ego at play with Hardy in these films.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
  • To extend honesty, or anything else, to a friend is to run the risk of its rejection.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Caring about things outside of work takes the sting off of rejection.
    Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 5 July 2023
  • Boeing’s first offer, the rejection of which kicked off the strike, was for a 25% wage increase.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The piece celebrates female might in the face of rejection.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The judge said probable cause was the standard of proof for a grand jury to indict in the rejection.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Cole was shocked by her rejection and left in tears — and things only appeared to get worse for him at the reunion.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Lichtman claims that if even rejection rates were even, Gore would have won.
    Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Don't run from rejection or pain and facing hard things.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 May 2024
  • The process was too hard to navigate, many said, and was rife with rejection letters.
    The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Brown sought to portray him as a jilted ex-boyfriend who couldn't deal with rejection.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2024
  • The passion Castillo has for her work trumps rejection any day.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And every actor from George Clooney to the to the most obscure and unknown actor deals with rejection.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Still, many analysts and pollsters were thrown off by the large margin for the rejection camp.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Only in the wake of the rejection from Unilever has Lemann started to de-emphasize the cost-cutting, long the crux of the 3G model.
    Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Raised in the Pentecostal church, his early years were filled with both the love of community and the sting of rejection.
    Essence, 11 Oct. 2024
  • More important than the current defamation suit is the 2021 rejection of Banksy’s trademark by the EU.
    Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This rejection would occur before the immune system even had the chance to mount a response.
    David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • Anti-fat bias in health care can lead to poor treatment from doctors, or even flat-out rejection of care.
    Amanda Martinez Beck, SELF, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What followed were a rocky few months, including the narrow rejection of a plan that would have seen the business split up.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Is Naomi’s rejection of Blackness a part of the reason for her failure to live up to Bering’s legacy?
    Laura Tanenbaum, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
  • But the process didn’t end after Mr Turnbull’s rejection.
    Karla Grant, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • With each rejection of the bond, the district chooses to simply wait until the next election season to try again.
    Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Last year, Thaler sued the office, challenging the rejection.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that Aristotle and Ptolemy remain better known today than Aristarchus shows the force of the rejection.
    Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Galadriel’s rejection of Sauron clears the way of Celeborn’s return.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Parents at a June public hearing spoke against the rejection of the curriculum, which is for grades 1-5.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • While much of the country community has expressed skepticism and even all-out rejection of Bey’s latest project, one legend within the genre spoke up on her behalf following her CMAs snub.
    Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • There have been only nine rejections of Cabinet nominees by the Senate in American history.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024

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