How to Use dismiss in a Sentence

dismiss

verb

• I don't think we should dismiss the matter lightly.
• The students were dismissed early because of the snowstorm.
• Several employees were recently dismissed.
• Todd’s lawyers, made a motion for the COJ to dismiss the ethics charges.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2022
• Dancers dismissed Two dancers were fired in April and May.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The plans to dismiss the case were first reported by Bloomberg.
  — Sarah N. Lynch and Ryan Patrick Jones, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
• In the filings, Samayoa’s attorney, Michael Rains, asks the court to dismiss the charges.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2023
• As part of a plea agreement Thomas entered to in May, eight of the 10 charges against him were dismissed.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
• Her lawyer, George Vrabeck, later asked the court to dismiss the case on July 6.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• The club will also bring back dancers who were dismissed last year.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 16 May 2023
• The judge reviewed the report and dismissed the ticket.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2023
• The judge also dismissed four out of the five of the specific complaints lodged by them.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• Of the 27 cases that were not dismissed, 26 were resolved by pleas.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• Brooks gave the sides until Friday to file a joint motion to dismiss the case.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2022
• As part of the deal, Norman’s charge of felony bail jumping was dismissed.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Some of the claims aren't likely to withstand a motion to dismiss.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
• The judge issued a ruling to nolle the charges against him, meaning they would be dismissed.
  — David R. Cameron, Hartford Courant, 31 Dec. 2024
• Yet in a fractured ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the lower courts to dismiss the case.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 July 2022
• In its filing, Amazon denies many of the charges and asks for the complaint to be dismissed.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
• When a defendant objects to the venue, a judge may dismiss the case.
  — Gabriel J. Chin, The Conversation, 21 June 2023
• The case was dismissed with prejudice on Dec. 26, per the 10-K filing.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• One of the panelists spoke with the station after the jury was dismissed.
  — CBS News, 2 June 2023
• The case may then move to a trial, though there is a chance the judge assigned to the case will dismiss Mr. Musk’s efforts to walk away.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2022
• Critics had said the WHO was too quick to dismiss the lab leak theory.
  — Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2022
• Navarro asked Mehta to dismiss the charges, but Mehta refused.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• The lockdown was lifted around 2:30 p.m., and the school planned to dismiss students as normal.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• Curran threatened to pull the lease if Griggs didn’t dismiss the hunters.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• The agreement gave him prison time for the manslaughter charge and dismissed the other two counts.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2023
• Many Americans don’t take Trump’s threats to Canada seriously—or seriously enough—and dismiss them with the same exhausted shrug that too many of Trump’s words inspire.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 1 May 2025
• Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter, but his case was dismissed after new evidence came to light that Baldwin’s lawyers alleged had been buried by the prosecutors.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025