How to Use tune out in a Sentence
tune out
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And Wall Street seems to be tuning out the whole thing.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
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In a blowout, fans of both teams are likely to tune out.
—John Affleck, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
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For the most part, Frank was tuned out of his daughter's life.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
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Like tune out the fact that the best player on the team is now in Houston.
—The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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Try to tune out the noise and stay focused on your long-term goals.
—Gregory Davis, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
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This means that drivers will get a ton of false alarms and may start to tune out the alert.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
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The Warriors might be the worst team in the NBA, but their fans don’t seem to be tuning out.
—Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 15 Dec. 2019
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Others are happy to tune out, turn in, and wait for some news in the morning.
—Caitlin Kelly, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
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Find a scenic course to run and tune out, letting your mind wander.
—Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
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Artists teach us what to take notice of and what to turn away from, whom to empathize with and whom to tune out.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
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There are signs that the flood of product is leading people to tune out.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
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The trick is to pick and choose when to tune in and when to tune out, and how to know the difference between facts and theater.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2024
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Throw them on, turn up the volume, and tune out during a stressful day.
—Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
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To understand what the coming months will be like, try to tune out the politicians.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
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Eventually, your mind tunes out the plot in order to snark about the craft.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
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The family has tried to tune out the news as much as possible.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
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What Jackson can’t tune out is the ticking clock of her tenure.
—Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
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Yet who can doubt that, as Tirico and others suggest, viewers turn on the game to tune out the world?
—Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
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Don’t tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
—Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
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Don't tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
—Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
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That makes weeks like this one, where investors tend to tune out a bit, a potential trap.
—Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 6 June 2022
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Will America watch no-name teams battle for the crown or tune out?
—Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
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To work the bar in these moments was its own game of skill: scan the front row of faces, memorize an order, tune out the jeers from the back.
—Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
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What better way to tune out the doubters and get pumped than by cranking up music by her friend, Queen Bey?
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
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Ever in the mood to tune out the entire world and just focus on a podcast or new album in peace?
—Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2019
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But this generation of kids can't just turn off and tune out.
—Amy Brill, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
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But this generation of kids can’t just turn off and tune out.
—Washington Post, 24 May 2021
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Players can work with coaches on how to tune out crowd noise or to feel inspired by it.
—The Enquirer, 2 July 2021
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If both guys seem like their usual selves, offering up the same old same old, will viewers gradually tune out over the next ninety minutes?
—Washington Post Opinions Staff, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
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Over the last two decades, American lectures on democracy have increasingly been tuned out.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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