How to Use cancel out in a Sentence

cancel out

phrasal verb

• A little inattention in quarter three can cancel out a stellar first half and dash hopes for the last quarter of glory.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2024
• That cancels out hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to the state of Connecticut each year, administration officials estimate.
  — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2024
• The increase in prices from the last few months has canceled out the late-2022 dip.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2023
• With these headphones, students can cancel out any noise and focus on the task at hand.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2023
• Its creamy, pudding-like texture is a dream and the slight orange hue cancels out my dark circles.
  — Lindy Segal, harpersbazaar.com, 16 May 2023
• But even that wouldn’t entirely cancel out the need for a lot more transmission.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• With heated rollers and three different strengths, this massager will pummel out knots and cancel out any need for a trip to the spa.
  — Melissa Epifano, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• But that likely won’t be enough to cancel out some of the more mundane nuisances that come up throughout July.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2024
• The chips were warm and bad, their warmth basically cancelling out their badness.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Renters will now be able to reduce or cancel out their utility payments when the sun is shining.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Soler and Wade opened Tuesday’s fifth inning with solo shots, canceling out the Braves’ own back-to-back bombs in the second inning.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
• Miss Manners does not believe that the wife’s rudeness cancels out past kindnesses, but you are now equals — as members and adults.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• But the reason why, Spoelstra said, should have canceled out any sanction, as Heat guard Tyler Herro played on after breaking his right hand.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• As all these sunspots form and fizzle, the tiny leftover charges gradually build up at the poles and cancel out their polarity.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the basic gist is that there are five points in the Earth-Sun system where the gravitational pull of the two bodies is effectively canceled out.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2023
• Biden rebounded the next day, but somehow doing so is not enough to cancel out his bad debate performance.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• In Seattle, locking the clock on daylight saving time would push sunrise to after 8:30 a.m. for more than two months of the year—cancelling out the recent bell changes made by Seattle public schools.
  — TIME, 9 Mar. 2024
• Smith equalized on 50 minutes with a fine left-footed strike from the edge of the box and calmly added a second later in the half, only for Leon’s spot kick to cancel out the USA’s narrow advantage.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• These versions of chai often contain high amounts of sugar, which will cancel out any of those health benefits the tea offers, Crumble Smith warns.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• This spot is one of five points in space where the gravity of the Earth and sun cancel out, allowing spacecraft to remain in place relative to the two large bodies and conserve fuel.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Seng said the amount a person saves on their electricity bill thanks to solar panels should help offset, or cancel out, the monthly cost of paying off the loans for the panels themselves.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Such tactics, of course, cancel out the fuel-efficiency advantage of the taller axle ratio.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• The makeup artist selected shade 320, a medium peach color that would help color-correct and cancel out dark circles.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2023
• This approach cancels out much of the digging forces, allowing the robot to operate in low gravity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
• That’s because color-correction works to cancel out the bluish tone of dark circles so that the concealer can then create an even canvas overall.
  — Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• Lightning almost struck in Moody, but Propst left upset about an offensive pass interference call in the second half that canceled out a Pell City score.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• Maine is a blue state with one Republican district, and so that action would cancel out what Nebraska is attempting to do.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• These offsets are an effort to cancel out one’s own carbon dioxide pollution.
  — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• The idea was that companies could cancel out some of their pollution by paying to protect forests that naturally absorb CO2.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024
• Clean-up measures cancelled out Eagle Valley began operating in 1949 as a coal plant.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024