How to Use explain away in a Sentence

explain away

verb

• Now, could it be maybe explained away?
  — Lauren A. White, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
• At the time, the signs felt easy to explain away.
  — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
• Cramer said Visa tried to explain away a downtick in the last month.
  — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• There was no explaining away a mistake like that.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
• For a long time, these symptoms were dismissed or explained away.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
• But in his tenure, he's never had to explain away a loss on his watch in a statewide race.
  — Dana Ferguson, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
• And therefore what else could be happening that can explain away this?
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
• The reasons for the Dodgers’ struggles are easy to explain away.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
• Readers have tried ever since to explain away that sentence.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
• And so there's a lot of using the vehicle of art to explain away breaking the rules.
  — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
• This isn’t a trend that can be explained away by a difference in ambition.
  — Liz Elting, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• These subtle shifts are easy to explain away and even easier to ignore.
  — Tatiana Dias, Vogue, 30 June 2026
• Trump has falsely claimed that there was widespread fraud in the election to explain away his defeat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• Jean doesn’t try to explain away the contradiction.
  — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• Some clues here can be debunked, others could be tough to trust, others are…harder to explain away.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• So far, Barbi has explained away the questions through magic.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• But the central bank must not explain away a clear emerging pattern of rising product prices.
  — Mickey D. Levy and Michael D. Bordo, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• Trump was undeterred in exchanges that are easy to understand and hard to explain away.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• Through the years, black coaches have heard a host of excuses to explain away the pitiful numbers.
  — Jerome Solomon, ExpressNews.com, 27 June 2020
• Ten Hag is running out of excuses to explain away his team’s failures.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• And when hate speech is excused or explained away, Jewish lives are put in mortal danger.
  — Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
• Of course, quirks of the schedule are not enough to explain away 33 losses in the last 35 games alone.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2020
• But that doesn’t fly and neither do the efforts to explain away Biden’s misstatement.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
• Starting to wonder if the things that go bump in the night are more than your house’s quirks that can be rationally explained away?
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
• This time, even Riley knew there was no sense in trying to explain away how close his Trojans had come.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
• Certainly, there are swing issues that can’t be explained away by a good week at Triple-A.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
• But his attempts to explain away the allegations could create headaches for his legal team in court.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• That bone-deep exhaustion during perimenopause is easy to explain away.
  — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
• The loss to South Carolina was too much for the committee to explain away.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• All of these were explained away by prosecutors, and again by Judge Drake in his summing-up.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024