Use "brush-off" in a sentence

1. Why was he giving her the brush-off?

2. She escaped with a silky brush-off, and found herself dropped on the sidewalk opposite Hotel Paradise, staring at the building and reminiscing the wild times she and Caroline had shared inside

3. “This sounds like a brush-off, Liz

4. the most pleasant brush-off I had ever had but I wasn’t happy

5. A brush-offee doesn’t usually

6. I have been on enough interviews to know when I was being given the brush-off

7. given the brush-off to earlier

8. The understanding of my double-talk which usually made her smile but gave me neither a hint of her thoughts nor a brush-off

9. her the brush-off is something he doesn’t want to miss

10. Doubtless she means it as a brush-off, but he sees a chance here to reassert himself as the husband he still technically is

11. Despite her brush-offs and vague responses to personal questions he’d asked, he’d learned more about her than she’d ever intended