How to Use tune out in a Sentence

tune out

verb
  • Tropes are made to be tuned out.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Try to tune out the noise and stay focused on your long-term goals.
    — Gregory Davis, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • There are so many [mom] athletes in the past that just get tuned out.
    — Maya Davis, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • But this is not the time to just tune out and turn away from your neighbor.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • To tune out, shut off your phone, sit in your backyard, and take in your view.
    — Sarah Richards, Woman's Day, 14 Aug. 2018
  • For the most part, Frank was tuned out of his daughter's life.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Find a scenic course to run and tune out, letting your mind wander.
    — Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Porter, however, had long learned how to tune out the noise.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • This means that drivers will get a ton of false alarms and may start to tune out the alert.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • No amount of quiet can tune out the world, and Davidtz doesn’t want to.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • Or will Roseanne Barr’s tweets cause some viewers to tune out?
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The Knicks tuned out their fans and detractors alike.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 June 2026
  • The tendency when faced with such a firehose of news is to tune out.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
  • But this generation of kids can't just turn off and tune out.
    — Amy Brill, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • There are signs that the flood of product is leading people to tune out.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The music isn't too loud to tune out and the chairs are comfortable.
    — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Marsch also knows players can sometimes tune out his words.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Throw them on, turn up the volume, and tune out during a stressful day.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Like tune out the fact that the best player on the team is now in Houston.
    — The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Others are happy to tune out, turn in, and wait for some news in the morning.
    — Caitlin Kelly, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • That makes weeks like this one, where investors tend to tune out a bit, a potential trap.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Vince Vaughn might be tuning out from late-night TV.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The family has tried to tune out the news as much as possible.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Artists teach us what to take notice of and what to turn away from, whom to empathize with and whom to tune out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • There, Black poets of all stripes could tune out the world and instead fine-tune their craft.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • That often means tuning out the skeptics.
    — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Will America watch no-name teams battle for the crown or tune out?
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Eventually, your mind tunes out the plot in order to snark about the craft.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • Jude and Evan, tuning out the chaos, played five-in-a-row on a piece of lined paper.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • To understand what the coming months will be like, try to tune out the politicians.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020

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