How to Use brush-off in a Sentence

brush-off

noun

• Advertisement In response to which Thune had a polite brush-off.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 29 July 2026
• That brush-off on top of Chris somehow edging her out of the Olympic team so that Tunde wound up as an alternate was too much not to go nuclear.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
• The comment has done little to settle the debate, with fans remaining divided on whether to take her denial seriously or read it as a playful brush-off.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
• But his subtle brush-off of Collins is a sign of the cocky and brash kid already beginning to emerge — the same one who could cut down people down to size on his way to redefining himself and jolting both the New York folk scene and the world of pop at large.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
• With the Red Sox trailing after losing the opener of the best-of-three Wild Card Series against the Yankees 9-0, Gray will face a fan base on Wednesday night that gave him the Bronx brush-off in 2017 and 2018.
  — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026