How to Use brush aside in a Sentence

brush aside

phrasal verb

• Once the Games start and the athletes are on the court or off the blocks, these issues tend to be brushed aside, for better or worse.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 July 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
• But conservatives have brushed aside that norm to protest leadership and freeze the House floor.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
• 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
• To get a sense of just how big the gains that Collier brushes aside are, consider the following back-of-the-envelope calculation.
  — Justin Sandefur, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
• 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
• The realities of their experiences are frequently brushed aside or ignored by many of the same Republicans who were quick to blame rhetoric from the left for the attack on Trump.
  — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• 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
• If this was just about our feelings, these denunciations could be easily brushed aside.
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 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
• Netanyahu has brushed aside calls for new elections, which are not required until October 2026, saying holding them during a war would only help Hamas.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024