How to use "refused" in a sentence

When he drove his cart into the entrance to Dutfield's Yard, the pony turned to the left and refused to go on

He offered Javert his hand, but the inspector refused to take it

The concierge, however, became suspicious, thinking that Marius was connected with the police, and refused to say anything.

She was going with her father to England, and his grandfather had refused to give his permission for him to marry

I went to my grandfather, and he refused to give his permission

Sword in hand, surrounded by soldiers, he refused to surrender

At first, Cosette could not understand why Valjean refused to meet her upstairs

When he refused to kiss her cheek, she began to feel unhappy, afraid that she had done something to offend him

He forgot to do it once, and they refused to pay him for the day.

She refused to consider any other possibility because the alternatives were too frightening.

Vivienne Neddler refused to give anyone reason to think her a fool.

She refused to let a poltergeist scare her off.

The only way she could have held on to her husband would have been to abandon her new career, and she had refused to do that.

At least Kennebeck hadn't refused the request; nevertheless, Elliot had expected a quicker and more satisfying response

He refused to look at the muzzle of the pistol

When Elliot refused to move away from the sink to the breakfast table in the far corner of the big kitchen, Bob, the smaller of the two men, hesitated, then reluctantly took a step toward him.

An ex-showgirl! Alexander refused to believe that a showgirl could be of more than average intelligence

The revolver refused to fire.

She refused to say why, or how she had got my brother to put his head under it.

'And you refused to listen.'

And as time passed and the engine drivers and firemen refused to return to London, the people turned in growing crowds away from the stations and onto the roads running north

Mrs Elphinstone - that was the name of the woman in white - refused to listen to his argument, and kept calling for 'George', but her sister-in-law was very quiet and sensible and agreed to my brother's suggestion

We refused to continue.

He said he'd come for two reasons: first, to express his feelings for me (I refused to listen to them) and secondly, to repeat the warning in his letter

She said, "I wanted to stay in school but he refused