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
Josepha, though so ill, of course could not refuse admittance to the freezing men, who were already on the threshold.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
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)
Ask the nuns, to whom he is father confessor; they will have no other, and refuse admittance to one of our order who hath been sent to take this duty upon him.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
