Sentence examples for try to brush aside from inspiring English sources

Watching them try to brush aside the avalanche of claims against them was like watching a wind-up toy that has reached the wall; their wheels spun; they weren't going anywhere.

He seemed to be trying to brush aside the issue as a technicality.

As she boarded a subway in the Capitol, she tried to brush aside questions.

In her radio message, Mrs. Arroyo tried to brush aside the debate over her intentions.

MR. Adelaja, who has a boisterous laugh and a relentlessly sunny personality, tries to brush aside the insults.

And Mr. Lewandowski gave a series of interviews Monday afternoon in which he tried to brush aside questions about the internal particulars of his departure.

Venezuela's 81-year-old president was trying to brush aside speculation about the state of his health--in the preceding week he had been reported in hospital outside the country, in a coma, even dead.

A number of G-7 officials had tried to brush aside Trump's comments during the Quebec summit, suggesting he was trying to show bravado ahead of his talks with the North Korean leader.

Russia has tried to brush aside the significance of the boycott, describing the G7 as an informal club, but Russia had fought hard to gain entry to the forum and now faces the possibility of long term exclusion.

"Maybe there is a younger conductor in some small town somewhere else," he said, trying to brush aside a claim that has brought him more fame than he seems ready to handle.

At the start of a day-long campaign swing in New Hampshire, Perry also tried to brush aside controversies over earlier remarks questioning whether President Obama was born in the United States and whether he will skip upcoming debates, as an aide suggested this week.