I simply tuned my mind to other things, freeing it from the mundane blank, and proceeded, as it were, on automatic.

Residents, he said, simply tune their television to the cable channel that is assigned to the system.

So the people who agree with you already listen to what you say, and the ones who support Mueller simply tune you out.

Was it beyond view, or had it simply tuned to his sensorium so well that he now missed it entirely?

Voters may simply tune a lot of this out; Mr. McCain, for instance, always gets applause when he mentions his disdain for attack ads, but virtually never a follow-up question.

Consumers are so swamped by pitches that many simply tune them out.

You simply tune it in to the frequency you want to listen to.

To write about this garrulous era, Mr. Garrett simply tuned in, "searching, like with a satellite dish, to find the voices."

They simply tune into the frog's mating call and silently pick off the amorous amphibian.

It relies so much on hyperbole that teen-agers, ever more knowledgeable about drugs, simply tune it out.