How to Use tune out in a Sentence

tune out

verb
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  • And Wall Street seems to be tuning out the whole thing.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In a blowout, fans of both teams are likely to tune out.
    — John Affleck, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • For the most part, Frank was tuned out of his daughter's life.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Like tune out the fact that the best player on the team is now in Houston.
    — The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Try to tune out the noise and stay focused on your long-term goals.
    — Gregory Davis, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • To tune out, shut off your phone, sit in your backyard, and take in your view.
    — Sarah Richards, Woman's Day, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Others are happy to tune out, turn in, and wait for some news in the morning.
    — Caitlin Kelly, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Find a scenic course to run and tune out, letting your mind wander.
    — Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • There are signs that the flood of product is leading people to tune out.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Throw them on, turn up the volume, and tune out during a stressful day.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
  • To understand what the coming months will be like, try to tune out the politicians.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
  • In other words, tune out the noise and the heady expectations.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 May 2019
  • Eventually, your mind tunes out the plot in order to snark about the craft.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The family has tried to tune out the news as much as possible.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • What Jackson can’t tune out is the ticking clock of her tenure.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Don’t tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Don't tune out the message just because the messenger crossed a line.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • That makes weeks like this one, where investors tend to tune out a bit, a potential trap.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Will America watch no-name teams battle for the crown or tune out?
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But this generation of kids can’t just turn off and tune out.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • But the strapping 22-year-old American who picked up his javelin and prepared to make history had no problem tuning out the crowd at the Olympic Stadium in Colombes.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 14 July 2024
  • The next night, the offenders were drunken dudes: different register and subject matter—golf, blackjack, the scene at the pool at the Wynn—but just as hard to tune out or counteract.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024

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