How to Use insignificant in a Sentence
insignificant
adjective- Looking up at the stars always makes me feel so small and insignificant.
- They lost an insignificant amount of money.
- These problems are not insignificant.
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And Trump, in the broad scheme of things, is insignificant.
— Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020 -
That was insignificant to many people, but not to those who bet on the game.
— Tim Bielik, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020 -
The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.
— Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024 -
And the amount of deaths in children is not insignificant.
— Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 31 July 2021 -
But that doesn’t mean the rally from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to win was insignificant.
— Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022 -
On the one hand, the investments in the budget are not insignificant.
— Mary Kay Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022 -
The details are not insignificant, and the journey is not an easy one.
— Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 30 July 2021 -
And even the more insignificant like Dwayne Haskins and Luke Falk.
— Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021 -
Then there is the allure of the not insignificant anonymity of a largely TMZ-free zone.
— Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022 -
The loss of Al-Shaair, who started 22 games the past two seasons, is not insignificant.
— Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2023 -
The Rangers may have been outshot, but the two teams combined for an insignificant 51 shots.
— Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Some not-so-insignificant hurdles have been cleared in the process.
— Brian Peccarelli, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022 -
None of these costs are insignificant, and they're all reflected at the pump.
— Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 10 July 2022 -
In other words, Lorde wrote this song while in some kind of non-insignificant pain.
— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 11 June 2021 -
Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
— Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024 -
And thus, with some not-insignificant face cracks, Rosé and Denali are safe once again.
— Paul McCallion, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021 -
Man has already made changes in the map of nature that are not few nor insignificant.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020 -
To make this quite clear: There is a not-so-insignificant risk of a government shut down right now.
— Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021 -
That's not insignificant since this will beis the 55th title game.
— Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021 -
Moral issues are not insignificant, but they can be dealt with in time.
— Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021 -
There is no advantage too insignificant or edge too small when the stakes are this large and the margin this slim.
— Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024 -
So, the fact Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was able to end the night with three straight kneel-downs wasn’t insignificant.
— Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023 -
That Oseary let his hair go gray is not insignificant, as the 49-year-old had been dyeing it for the better part of two decades.
— Shirley Halperin, Variety, 28 July 2022 -
Some will call all this petty and insignificant, but UAB to the Big 12 shouldn’t be considered a joke.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2021 -
Any rainfall would be light, insignificant, and not last that long.
— Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023 -
A couple of thousand pounds of towing and a few hundred pounds of cargo hauling are not insignificant for a midsize pickup.
— New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024 -
That is an insignificant proportion of the overall sum that will be allocated.
— Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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