How to Use inconsiderable in a Sentence

inconsiderable

adjective

• Ku Klux Klan, a not inconsiderable force in the 1920s, even here, and members were split over — well, who knows?
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• Of course there is the not inconsiderable matter of who, if anyone, becomes the next Black Panther.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
• There is a not inconsiderable amount of overlap between members of the two academies that are based on opposite sides of the pond.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2022
• There was also the not-inconsiderable fact that Gaumont spent $1 million on the opening party.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• Most of his career moves were initiated about six decades ago by Andy Warhol, who had the not inconsiderable advantage of being great.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• As head chemist at the Agriculture Department, Wiley was able to offer them $5 a month, which wasn’t an inconsiderable sum for someone on a government salary, and free food—as suspect as said food might be.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Piling all that extra cash on its balance sheet would also have raised its book value, and hence its valuation by a not inconsiderable almost 7%.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2020
• That such a singular and delicate thing has survived, even thrived, in the roiling seas of television is a seemingly small but not inconsiderable mercy.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• People’s livelihoods are at stake here, especially when a not inconsiderable portion of said livelihood involves writing about you once a week!
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2018
• No doubt, there was the not inconsiderable challenge of turning a television piece into a print piece for a magazine whose strength is exactly the nuance and depth that can be incompatible with the structures of TV.
  — James Warren, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Tierney missed long periods of last season through injury, and a number of potential Premier League suitors may be put off by the prospect of spending a not inconsiderable amount of money on a player with his history.
  — SI.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• To a not inconsiderable number of pundits, an obvious answer was taking shape, just a few weeks into Biden’s candidacy.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2019
• A not inconsiderable point: A disproportionate number of the oligarchs are Jewish.
  — Michael Wolff, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2011
• As operations have evolved, the workforce has declined to a not inconsiderable 5,000 daily personnel.
  — William Steel, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• In addition to the not inconsiderable technical challenge of building a successful rocket, Beck also sees plenty of range issues.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2018
• Legally, financial crimes are notoriously difficult to prosecute successfully, so there is a not-inconsiderable chance that the charges could fail in court.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 30 June 2021
• Paradoxically, as a number of Williams biographers have noted, Egan never went after Williams on the slugger’s personal life, in which there was a not inconsiderable amount of material.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
• The enjoyability of The Burning Girl, while not inconsiderable, is a function of its familiarity.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Throughout the first act, Mr. Norris and Mr. Greif pull off the not inconsiderable feat of keeping us fully, even breathlessly engaged, without presenting a single character who entirely captures our sympathies.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• This amount, little more than the veteran minimum, was hardly an inconsiderable investment for a team already facing a luxury-tax bill north of $134 million during a pandemic that threatens to keep fans away from Chase Center indefinitely.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Those are not inconsiderable bases on which to claim political legitimacy.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 17 Aug. 2021
• And there is also this not inconsiderable benefit: people speak of incompetent writers, but never of incompetent readers.
  — Wisława Szymborska, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
• But industry figures argue that some responsibility must also lie with the submission platforms themselves, especially FilmFreeway — which makes a not-inconsiderable 8.5 percent commission on each admission fee.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024