Example sentences for: dismissive

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

  • If college had remained less important--it once was: Andrew Carnegie for example was dismissive of college graduates--it would have mattered less just what the standards for admission were.

  • Though Ferber hasn't put out the white flag, Brazelton is sounding less and less dismissive of parents who sleep with their kids.

  • Whatever you make of Velvet Goldmine (opinions have ranged from rapturous to casually dismissive), it's like no other musical ever made.

  • Hoping for an ecstatic reaction from this most vital of critics, he found instead an old woman hobbled by Parkinson's disease, and one whose response to his film was gnomic and gently dismissive.

  • But let me tell you why I think you may have been too dismissive when you wrote, "Were the consumers who turned 'Rock Around the Clock' and 'Heartbreak Hotel' into hit records 9 and 10 years old?


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