How to Use rejection in a Sentence

rejection

noun

• Caring about things outside of work takes the sting off of rejection.
  — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 5 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His sculptures were often met with ridicule and rejection.
  — Julia Fischer, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• For 54 hours, the kidney produced urine and seemed to perform like a human kidney transplant would, and there were no signs of rejection.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Don’t feel too bad for us, though, as many of those rejections found homes in other publications.
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Even with a pig organ sitting outside the human body, there’s still a risk of rejection because the patient’s blood is moved through the pig liver.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• The account of Wong’s lobbying for the role of O-lan, and her quest to retain her pride in the face of humiliating rejection, is one of the book’s strongest.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• The pitcher, who grew up watching the Texas Rangers, had a rocky road to baseball’s big leagues, enduring disappointment and rejection along the way.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• The bill’s rejection has been seen as a disappointment for Black hair advocates in the state, with some feeling pushed aside by the leadership.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Mar. 2024
• If his son regarded your leaving as a personal rejection, Dan may be able to disabuse him of that idea and patch things up.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• By the summer, she had been met with rejection after rejection.
  — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The rejection seemed to make Testino more aggressive, Ritchson claims.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• The events of 2020 radicalized a portion of the New Right and sped up its rejection of politics-as-usual and its embrace of state power.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
• Four defenders blocked a shot, led by Nathan Mensah’s five rejections.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Dating, Plato once said, is like enlisting in a gangbang of rejection, lizard-tongue make-outs, and 2 am doom-swiping.
  — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
• Even a rejection can still teach you something that clarifies your path forward.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
• Your Jupiter and Saturn placement suggests a need for perfectionism and a fear of rejection.
  — Saam Niami, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• The rejections were based on ABC’s uncertainty as to whether their objections to taking the vaccine were based on their Christian faith.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• And Maeve has had this rejection that has completely knocked her confidence.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• But he’s being welcomed into a band of Lost Boys, gay and straight alike, who find solidarity in their state of rejection.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• In an attempt to numb the pain of Jesse’s rejection, Sophie drank down many of Drew’s signature margaritas.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• After years of rejection, the actress is landing a successful show and ready to launch another.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024