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brushes aside

vb. (en-third-person singularbrush aside)

Usage examples of "brushes aside".

You can sit there and tell me you could stop- just set your brushes aside and leave your canvas blank?

The momentum of his charge brushes aside my leg and now it is me who is suddenly off balance.

But where the starlight's gleam stroked the blade she felt it waken under her touch, felt it grope upward in the way a hand brushes aside a spider's web that blocks the entrance to a cave.

He squats down, and very carefully brushes aside pieces of loose earth and grass from a shallow depression in the earth.

He pushed him out of his way, not roughly, but with a simple, smooth sweep of his arm, as one brushes aside an obstructing curtain, then walked out.

The double tense of the verb, present-past, stipulates and brushes aside the concept that identity is a meaningless abstraction--is this the sword you actually used, in the everyday meaning, and don't kid me, soldier.

The double tense of the verb, present-past, stipulates and brushes aside the concept that identity is a meaningless abstraction—.