Example Sentences

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“I do think they have met their burden, and the jury should decide. I am denying the motion without prejudice,” the judge said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2024

"I am denying the application. I’m remanding him. He is going to have a little taste of what it's like to be charged and hanging out with the wrong people."

From Fox News • Feb. 17, 2022

“But I am denying that we notice it to give us that leverage.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 9, 2019

“At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 3, 2018

Indeed we may wait if we will,—I hope you do not think that I am denying that,—but if we do so, we do so at our peril as much as if we believed.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William