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.
  • 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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