Example sentences for: dismissed

How can you use “dismissed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But while she got plenty of media attention, her story was widely dismissed as irrelevant under the Ozark Exemption, or as the nattering of, in the words of Newsweek 's Evan Thomas, "some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks"--a remark for which he later apologized.

  • Another option-eventually dismissed as impractical-was to place a powerful long-range telescope on a mountain within range of one of Bin Ladin's training camps.

  • There are three opinions you can't voice in America without being dismissed as a crackpot, if not worse: The '60s experiments in consciousness expansion were basically a good thing; organized religion is oppressive; children and teen-agers have a right to enjoy their sexuality.

  • Nickles dismissed both arguments.

  • Though Ackerman's claims were dismissed by anti-impeachment scholars such as Lawrence Tribe, they are not without their supporters, and he has now presented them in a minibook, The Case Against Lameduck Impeachment . Another project, written with Yale colleague Anne Alstott, is even more outré.


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