How to Use benign in a Sentence

benign

adjective

• We were happy to hear that the tumor was benign.
• Out of context, a plea for heterodox thinking and open-mindedness might seem benign.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2021
• While the weather could play a role in this election, the forecast looks rather benign in much of the country on Nov. 5.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
• While my Spotify Wrapped felt benign (and predictable) enough to share, there was one surprise.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• Unity’s move spurs questions about the digitally benign.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
• During the procedure, doctors found and removed a 3 millimeter-size growth from his colon that appeared to be benign.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 29 Nov. 2021
• These seizures are sometimes called benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (stomach flu), and rotavirus is a common cause of these symptoms.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024
• Of course, nothing about my story, neither its reflection of cultural misogyny nor its origins in my willful self-destruction, is benign.
  — Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• The polyp removed from President Joe Biden's colon last week was benign, but potentially pre-cancerous.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
• At the same time, Miyazaki resists romanticizing nature as purely benign, again rejecting a binary of good and evil.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• This weekend’s front, by comparison, was relatively benign.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Jan. 2022
• Failing to pay attention to the law of corridors leads us to inadvertently help problem species (rather than beneficial or simply benign species) into the future.
  — Rob Dunn, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• Leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma arise in cells that create antibody-producing cells, so drugs that attack the cancer remove not just malignant cells, but also benign immune cells.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 30 Nov. 2021
• Farther south, the effects of the heat are less benign.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• In the moment, that Marisnick did not catch the ball was benign.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• Closer to the surface of the Earth, the effect is not so benign.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
• More benign footage has been removed from the video, as well.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 July 2023
• Odds are the lump is benign, and your guy may not need to address it at all.
  — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• There are about 4,000 species of snails worldwide and most are benign.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 5 Aug. 2020
• But the tumor was benign, and Quinn had surgery to enable him to live with the tumor.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
• Some of the pictures are as benign as a day at the beach, but others smack of danger.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• The intent might be as benign as the creative use of language.
  — Robert Myers, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2019
• The current that cut that canyon looks shallow and benign.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 11 Dec. 2020
• The benign terra cotta heads were deemed by some to be racist.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• But the most dispiriting sounds of all are often the most benign.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2022
• Doctors removed the mass, which turned out to be benign.
  — al, 26 Apr. 2021
• Sulin, in turn, assured her daughter that the growth was benign.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• That might seem benign, or perhaps even endearing—the sound of the bustle of the big city.
  — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
• At first, the ghostly sightings are benign, but then the spirit asks to move into the doll.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024