How to Use benign in a Sentence

benign

adjective

• We were happy to hear that the tumor was benign.
• 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 Paralympics are more than a benign version of the Olympics.
  — Stephen Wade, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• At first, the ghostly sightings are benign, but then the spirit asks to move into the doll.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017
• Uterine fibroids are benign tumors that grow in and around the uterus.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• But as with many things in life, a benign trend gone too far can become a problem.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• These benign small and firm white bumps appear on the face—usually around the eyes.
  — Carley Millhone, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
• Chimps are the natural host of only a few viruses, and these are on the whole rather benign.
  — Kyle Harper, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
• Some of the most common: fibroids, polyps and benign uterine growths.
  — Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2017
• But even the apps that are slightly more benign, or at least less legally pressed, are part of the same system.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
• But this isn't a benign illness, even for someone who's 45, or 47 like me.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
• This has been one of those weeks around the University of Utah that felt very benign.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• While a cap on overhead may appear to be a benign economy move, the announcement has raised protests from diverse places including Harvard and the University of Alabama.
  — Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
• To read the line simply as a benign invitation—or, conversely, as a straightforward command—is to miss the point: the poem is exploring the different ways that people connect, rather than insisting on one kind of intimacy.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025