refuse admittance
Example Sentences
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In Calvert's case, the court held that a suspect's absence may be simply another attempt to refuse admittance, and thus permits police to break in without service.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great bulk of the visitors have been curious correspondents and press agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance.
From Time Magazine Archive
To-day she clung convulsively to her daughter, unwilling that she should leave her even for an instant; to-morrow she would lock herself in, and for hours refuse admittance to any human being.
From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
He added he had reluctantly despatched mounted messengers to Leamington, Cheltenham, Bristol Well, Brighthelmstone, Harrowgate, Scarborough, Tunbridge and the Bath, begging his brethren to refuse admittance to any new arrivals until farther warning.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
Then, greatly agitated, but not daring to refuse admittance to the dreaded soldiery, the woman unbarred the door.
From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis
