Example sentences for: dismissing

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

  • Reacting to claims by such figures as Bill Clinton and the pope that Dolly, the cloned ewe, represents a moral threat, members of the Amherst-based International Academy of Humanists have issued a declaration applauding cloning technology and dismissing religious critics as Luddites.

  • '" Many commentators in Slate 's "Fray" echo this view, dismissing the whole controversy as a phony media game of "gotcha."

  • No economist with ambitions for tenure would dream of dismissing a business as a "shell game" merely because its revenue diverts revenue from other businesses.

  • Before dismissing Ventura as any kind of a stereotype, consider his response to a question about his stance on gay rights: "I have two friends that have been together 41 years.

  • Even such a staunch supporter as William F. Buckley Jr. squirmed in embarrassment as he defended his hero Nixon, calling him "paranoid" and dismissing his anti-Semitism as "all foam, no teeth," pointing out that Jews like Henry Kissinger, William Safire, and Herb Stein continued to support him although it was "unlikely" that they were "unaware" of his anti-Semitic tendencies.


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