Example Sentences

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For her part Zoe, mature well beyond her tender age, dismisses the hype with a shrug.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

Pombo dismisses many of my thoughts on balancing out my salt intake.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“I’m pretty sure I didn’t tell him where I lived,” she muses when David proposes collecting her for an evening out, but she dismisses her suspicions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

She evades that reality in “107 Days,” in which she dismisses antiwar protesters at her rallies as mere “hecklers.”

From Salon • May 5, 2026

We stand there a good few minutes, thinking, till Bernie dismisses us.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak