Sentence examples for brush me from inspiring English sources

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"Before I was Japanese, people could just brush me off.

I've seen the apathy in the eyes of women who brush me off with a quick, "I could never live like that" before changing the subject.

More than once, I've had German parents brush me off when I urge my kids to say "please" or "thank you," to them, telling me not to bother, that it is not important.

As she wrote about her last time with the ailing Chamberlain in The New York Times five days after his death, "he let me slowly wrap my arm around him to comfort him through the final scenes of 'Shakespeare in Love.' I was braced for him to brush me off as usual, but not this time.

"I in no way pretend to know that those few hours of inconvenience approach any depth of understanding about what it really is like to be in prison, but it certainly did brush me up against all sorts of themes from black life you really do not want to come across," Mr. Pinckney said, pointing out that many of the prison guards who treated black prisoners poorly were also black.

You will never be forgotten". Doing this job I regularly stop people in the street who are rushing to work and a lot of people ignore me or brush me past.

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He brushed me off.

He just brushed me off".

"He kind of brushed me off," Buchanan said, of Gardner.

He helped me up and brushed me down.

They started to swoop down to my face level, brushing me," she said.

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