How to Use brush aside in a Sentence

brush aside

phrasal verb
Definition of brush asidenext
  • But conservatives have brushed aside that norm to protest leadership and freeze the House floor.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • If this was just about our feelings, these denunciations could be easily brushed aside.
    — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Now, brush aside your overcoat and tuck the object snugly into the waist of your pants at the small of your back.
    — Michael Finkel, Time, 14 June 2023
  • But that’s not the only way Tyler is attempting to brush aside the lawsuit.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2023
  • This doesn’t mean your wife’s objections can be brushed aside.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The cheeky clip was brushed aside by many as mischievous teasing between teammates at the time.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The call was supposed to last 15 minutes, but Biden brushed aside aides and stayed with the families for 90 minutes.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Trump’s critics will naturally find a way to brush aside these charges, too.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • What could have prompted a discussion about the importance of class in the United States was instead brushed aside.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • His hair is wavy and golden brown, whipping every which way, begging to be boyishly brushed aside.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • His objections were quickly brushed aside by the I.C.S.’s governing board.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • So far, Harry has brushed aside any chances to settle, turning his campaign against the tabloid press into one of the animating causes of his life.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • In the 1990s, when free markets and deregulation were all the rage, concerns about inequality were brushed aside as passé, maybe even soft-headed.
    — James K. Boyce, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Editors’ Picks For years, starting in 2018, Mr. Rush brushed aside warnings that the sub’s maverick design was destined to fail.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • As Daily brushed aside her hair, her sparkling engagement ring was visible on her finger.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • In Maine, where people are accustomed to damaging winter nor'easters, some brushed aside the coming Lee as something akin to those storms only without the snow.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In Maine, where people are accustomed to damaging winter nor’easters, some brushed aside the coming Lee as something akin to those storms only without the snow.
    — David Sharp, Robert F. Butaky and Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Murdoch brushed aside concerns related to his departure on the earnings call.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
  • Others say the museum has brushed aside their concerns, even when presented with strong evidence that relics had been plundered.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
  • Harper has brushed aside questions that his power outage is linked in any way to his early return from offseason Tommy John surgery.
    — Dan Gelston, ajc, 22 June 2023
  • As a grand finale, Chappelle delivered a dig about the 24-year-old Grammy winner, a dig that the musician ultimately brushed aside.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But Davenport-Thomas brushed aside his concerns and reassured the parent that the appropriate waivers had been obtained.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The spread of legal sports betting across the country has revealed problems that can’t easily be brushed aside or cloaked in minimizing context.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, prosecutors have brushed aside any attempt to label this case as novel.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 4 May 2023
  • Similar efforts in countries like Britain have run into legal challenges and opposition in the press—just the kind of obstacles that, in the UAE, are easier to brush aside.
    — TIME, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Harassment of female celebrities is frequent and often brushed aside, but deepfakes are harming them and others without the same power.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And any court oversight could be brushed aside, overridden by a simple Knesset majority.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The marked difference between Mister and his eldest son is humorously encapsulated when Harpo and the men on his building crew are brushed aside as Sofia and the women take over.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The security and reliability of used parts can be questionable, but amid the urgency of the AI boom, some conventional practices had to be brushed aside, the person says.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 3 May 2024
  • Mujahid was reluctant to discuss the restrictions on girls and women, brushing aside questions about the issue as repetitive and saying there was no point talking about it unless there were updates.
    — Riazat Butt, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023

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