How to Use reject in a Sentence

reject

1 of 2 verb
  • The college rejects hundreds of applicants each year.
  • The produce inspector rejected several crates of berries that had begun to grow mold.
  • My teacher rejected my excuse for being late.
  • The committee rejected my proposal.
  • We rejected 5 of the 10 job applicants right away.
  • The artist would reject that life.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And Bronin should make a clear pledge to reject them.
    — Jillian Gilchrest, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • By the way, post-script, at first they got rejected.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
  • At first glance, the collection seemed to be a paean to rejects.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • It has been rejected by Democrats.
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Have any offers been rejected, and if so, why?
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • They were rejected by venues and labels alike.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2026
  • Hezbollah has rejected the move and fought on.
    — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The question then goes to voters, who can approve or reject it.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One is that this group largely rejects the science of climate change.
    — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • All three times it was rejected despite getting more yes votes than no.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • Permission to reject shame around rest or tackling to-dos in a way that works for you.
    — Karin Eldor, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That was just normal, that the party would, and the movement would, reject that kind of thing.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But the state rejected the requests a week later.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Vawters, at that time, rejected the offer.
    — Eric Adler may 12, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
  • And when one item on a truck is rejected, the entire truck is rejected.
    — Liz Cheney, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • One reminds me of an ex-boyfriend and is swiftly rejected but the others?
    — Sarah Turner, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The jury rejected almost all of his claims.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Eight board members voted to reject the budget.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That could be fine if people knew when to rely on AIs and when to reject them.
    — Gautam Mukunda, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • What remains to be scene is whether Gen Z will come to accept it or reject it.
    — David Wade, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Katie fully catches on to his selfish game, though, and firmly rejects him at last.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Israel and Netanyahu reject both these charges.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Those close to the player reject the criticisms.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • All of those requests have been rejected by judges, according to court records.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023

reject

2 of 2 noun
  • Stack the promising applications here, and put the rejects over there.
  • The four rejects who do the best will move back into the house.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • As the saying goes, nobody wants to sit at the reject table.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That is a pretty high bar, though logic might suggest there are some gems among the rejects.
    — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Progress itself is scorned; workers on a dock reject a crane that would make their tasks more efficient.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Rejects are left to pick up street magic in the gritty confines of Brooklyn.
    — Doug Stumpf, HWD, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The house was quickly cast into the reject pile, as the couple resumed the search but found nothing.
    — Scott Sowers, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • And this is right at the heart of how dating apps lead you to behave — see a photo and swipe right for ‘like’ or left for ‘reject’.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In a nation obsessed with soccer, most of the 84 members are rejects from their school teams.
    — Matt Blomberg, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
  • Recent polls show that the reject option is leading approval by 10 points.
    — Axel Kaiser, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • Once just a reject, Jade now becomes the town’s resident kook and more than a little bit of a menace.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Non-playable characters ragdolled around like reject mannequins.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Today, there are hundreds of rejects packed in wood cabinets and cardboard boxes.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • So, men that have had it in their genital area and any of their limbs have been kind of suffering in silence and kind of feeling like a reject in a sense.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 5 June 2019
  • In the context of a bouncy showtune, though, the sentiment feels like a Hallmark reject.
    — Hampton Stevens, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
  • Looking like a reject from Spinal Tap, MacLachlan seems to be having a lot of fun with this role.
    — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 30 May 2017
  • Cuomo wasn't just another Michael Avenatti from the hot take reject pile.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Some supporters of urban cycling reject or question the value of helmets as a protective measure.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Critics of the law say it is being used to crush dissent, which authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong reject.
    — NBC News, 10 June 2019
  • Radamel Falcao, that reject of both Manchester United and Chelsea descent, was up first.
    — SI.com, 3 July 2019
  • Those who serve in Congress must be wary of, and reject, proposals that would further politicize the Court and add to the decline in the public’s trust in it.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, a body of social-science research suggests that being an oddball or a social reject can spark remarkable creativity.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The bag, which is a reject, is symbolic of the type of follow-through that has grown this tiny local golf bag company into world renowned provider of high-quality premium products.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2018
  • When a popular college student accepts the friend request of a social reject, her life spirals downward with homicidal tendencies.
    — Guy Hanford, Ramona Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2017
  • While some political observers feared — and polls suggested — voters might storm the ballot box in a frothing, burn-it-all-down, reject-everything kind of mood, that’s not what happened.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Jones, who also saved the English-language 'Diary of Anne Frank' from the reject pile, died yesterday at age 93.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Its rooms were piled with boxes of yard-sale rejects, random envelopes of family photos and other assorted flotsom and jetsom of memorabilia.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The good news is that the Elections Department is all caught up on rejects and requests for new applications, according to Callanen.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Swift tries out her blaccent alongside Future and Ed Sheeran, on a track that sounds unmistakably like a Rihanna reject.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has tried in the past to rinse away the fish’s reputation as a dirty kitchen-reject.
    — John Flesher, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2022

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