How to Use immaterial in a Sentence
immaterial
adjective- The fact that she is a woman is immaterial and irrelevant.
- Whether or not he intended to cause problems is immaterial.
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In the end, said many of the women who spoke to The Times, the goal is for gender to be immaterial.
— Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018 -
That the recipe reads like the product of a dare is immaterial.
— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2024 -
The details about how and why the band broke up are immaterial at this point.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021 -
But facts and history are immaterial to Trump, and some recent head-to-head polls have shown him ahead of Biden in the 2024 race.
— John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023 -
Race is not immaterial to the loss of prestige that critics have faced.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Whether that says more about the Ducks or the Beavers really is immaterial.
— oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019 -
Whether the left turn driver is in the right is somewhat immaterial.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021 -
The half-life of immaterial radiation for most of the waste is around five years.
— William Levin, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020 -
The fact that the video leaked the day before the extension deadline was immaterial since the team knew about the incident.
— Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019 -
To the religious, soul is your immaterial essence, your life force, so to speak.
— Shakeil Greeley, GQ, 28 Oct. 2017 -
But Stewart’s performance makes those things immaterial and the rest of the movie seem all the finer.
— BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021 -
The fact that Kirby wrote comic books and put this line in the mouth of a Ninja Turtle is immaterial.
— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022 -
How the rank-and-file voters ranked the entries was immaterial.
— Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2021 -
That Jones batted .382 over the nine games starting that day is immaterial to him.
— Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2017 -
Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are ripe, and so, as long as the player wasn’t a rental, the price was immaterial.
— Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 1 July 2018 -
But in the lawsuit, the companies claim that the information about the home was immaterial to the project and, therefore, didn’t need to be passed along.
— John Caniglia, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022 -
Lawrence has decided for Gray that Gray is in love with him; what Gray thinks is immaterial; the matter is settled for him on the spot.
— D.j. Taylor, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021 -
Asked about the initial tweet, Ron Klain, named this week as Biden’s chief of staff, said a concession from Trump was immaterial.
— Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 15 Nov. 2020 -
But when the motive favors Trump, the facts are immaterial.
— Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2017 -
The Vikings lost to the Panthers last week, but that’s immaterial to Keenum’s fantasy owners.
— Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017 -
How the Diamondbacks get their late leads, though, seems immaterial once Torey Lovullo hands the game over to his bullpen.
— Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2022 -
Chris feels it’s immaterial, their right as the police.
— Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2020 -
But he had been troubled by how the immaterial mind could be joined to a material body.
— Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022 -
So far, there has always been something new that attracts the crowd’s interest, making the fate of the been-there, done-that stocks immaterial.
— John S. Tobey, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021 -
And whether the new surcharge on hunting licenses will pay for the extension of the wolf killing program or not is immaterial to me.
— Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017 -
This does not mean that a driver’s performance on the road is immaterial.
— The Economist, 29 Oct. 2019 -
That it’s named after one of the most dangerous animals in the world is immaterial.
— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024 -
If a physics question or a history question included seemingly immaterial facts and figures, you were supposed to not neglect them out of hand.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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