How to Use refute in a Sentence

refute

verb

• The lawyer refuted the testimony of the witness.
• He refutes the notion that he's planning to retire soon.
• She refuted the allegations against her.
• Swift’s lawyer refuted the claim.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
• Williams’ impact on the bottom line is hard to refute.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Filicetti refutes the claim that his client is an anti-vaxxer.
  — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2026
• Club name Nvidia refuted the claim.
  — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
• But Flock has refuted these claims.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• The pageant refuted his claims in a statement.
  — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
• Saatchi, at least, welcomes pushback — and at times doesn’t even refute it.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
• But Seinfeld refutes the dark clown myth right out of the gate.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
• And then step down and help your nemesis step up and refute your argument.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
• Again, the video appears to refute what police said in their statement.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 21 Mar. 2018
• The film spends the next hour and 50 minutes refuting that idea.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
• As head-scratching as the whole thing is to look back on, there’s no real refuting that point.
  — Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
• Through reps, Marr refuted Mozz’s claims.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
• Meghan’s team strongly refuted the claims.
  — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
• Or perhaps the goader will attempt to refute the claims that life has value.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• This claim was refuted by the city’s mayor and local leaders on both sides of the aisle.
  — National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2020
• If the opening set introduced any doubts, though, the rest of the show refuted them.
  — Abby Webster, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2025
• But none of the reporting has been refuted, even by its targets.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
• Any attempt to refute false charges defied the party’s will and thus confirmed guilt.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• This argument, too, has been there since the outset, when there was no data yet to refute it.
  — Diana Gitig, ArsTechnica, 30 May 2026
• This argument, too, has been there since the outset, when there was no data yet to refute it.
  — ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
• And both refute the popular claim that Sims thought the drugs were too unproven and might prove lethal.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 20 Feb. 2022
• Both Kraft and Goodell have refuted the claim.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• But the company is refuting the claims.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• But the company is refuting the claims.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
• The pageant has refuted Harfouch's claims.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
• The Audit Guys also used the cast-vote record to refute that attack.
  — Steven Rosenfeld, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022