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minimize the importance of, brush aside
Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points
How To Use shrug off In A Sentence
- Fortunately, all our ironware is vintage Le Cousances, with metal handles, and these pots shrug off such minor problems. Lahey No-Knead Bread recipe: one baker’s experiences so far | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
- She wanted to shrug off his firm, proprietorial grasp but managed to resist.
- Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great, ageless whale.
- To denounce or shrug off a call for co-operation is an easy and cowardly thing. Times, Sunday Times
- I hope I can shrug off this cold before I go on holiday.
- The arcaded splendour of the Piazza del Duomo seemed to effortlessly shrug off the scaffolding in place when we visited - testament to the awesome power of the place.
- Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great, ageless whale.
- Yet constitutional monarchists would be foolish to shrug off the event.
- Americans will no longer be able to shrug off European concepts.
- I quit cold turkey some 25 years ago, but the specialists simply shrug off this kind of information.
