How to Use irrelevancy in a Sentence

irrelevancy

noun

• As the Kings try to shuffle out of the darkness of irrelevancy, days such as Thursday provide rays of light.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• But defense has been at the root of their rise from irrelevancy to perennial contention in the past half-decade.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
• Overseeing a brand that has already come back from the brink of irrelevancy, Tornare is determined to keep Zenith on track.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2022
• Texas Democrats have fought extinction and irrelevancy for years at the Texas Capitol.
  — Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
• The splintering of the media in recent years has only furthered the V-chip's irrelevancy.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2018
• Don’t trust the media to tell us; they are exhausted to the point of irrelevancy after spending over a year chasing the Holy Grail of Trump-Russian collusion.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
• At this point, the more relevant note is the irrelevancy of the radio in determining what people listen to.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 July 2018
• None of this leaves India as an irrelevancy for the world’s biggest companies.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Casey’s claim to fame is catching a game-winning two-point conversion against Texas last week, sending the Longhorns program and fan base further into the abyss of irrelevancy.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
• The singer, actress, entrepreneur, and mother has managed to dodge the dredges of irrelevancy by reinventing herself as the times change.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 27 Sep. 2019
• The fight against a feeling of irrelevancy was a long-standing fight against city government and many local businesses.
  — Boots Riley, HWD, 2 July 2018
• Afterward, the franchise had been ground to dust during the listless inertia of the Manny Acta irrelevancy.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• By the 1970s, the Cowsills were a pop irrelevancy, various siblings saddled with substance and personal problems.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Does this mean that the upcoming slate of Roald Dahl adaptation is doomed to low viewership and culturally irrelevancy?
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• For the better part of 20 minutes Tuesday, the Michigan basketball season tipped toward irrelevancy with more than a month remaining.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2022
• That the company formerly known as Facebook is treading water, trying to stave off irrelevancy and oblivion by copying the cool kids of social media.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 29 May 2022
• And one more sizzled from coast to coast, as Major League Baseball morphed from captivated to slack-jawed that a franchise mired in irrelevancy for so much of its existence has become a full-blown player at the biggest tables.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Because of the brand’s mechanical distinctiveness, the cars are harder to evolve and so risk technical irrelevancy in a market pursuing low and no emissions.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• The better question asks whether Michigan and Harbaugh believe there is reason to maintain the relationship long into the future given this year's slide into irrelevancy.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2020
• Members of the opposition Labour Party are wondering if their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will save them or plunge the party into irrelevancy.
  — Prashant S. Rao, New York Times, 30 June 2016
• There are myriad reasons that a team went from five consecutive division titles to six straight seasons of irrelevancy.
  — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• With just five electoral votes, an aging, stagnant population and little in the way of economic dynamism, the Mountain State was a political irrelevancy.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• In California, Democrats have pushed the Republican Party to near-irrelevancy, and pushed through a progressive agenda of social spending paid for by higher taxes.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
• Other leagues compromise, grow and prosper while baseball bickers and battles and points its fingers at one another on a path toward national irrelevancy.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• Among these strategies, volunteering is now seen as an effective way to battle irrelevancy and loneliness.
  — Sharon Jayson, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• In the aftermath of the tragedy, what should have been Trapattoni's crowning achievement paled into irrelevancy, becoming a day remembered of unspeakable pain as opposed to unbridled joy.
  — SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• At a time when the biggest threat facing most brands is irrelevancy, these marketers are fighting for brand relevancy and business growth with an unwavering commitment to making sure their marketing matters more.
  — Seth Matlins, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Most often the issue in question has been discussed dozens of times previously and is usually based either on an irrelevancy, or was acknowledged clearly in the original or subsequent paper or is based on some misperception of the science.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2010
• Usually what happens is what is happening so far to Trump: Marginalization leading to eventual irrelevancy.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 17 May 2017
• To miss these transformations would relegate one to irrelevancy.
  — Paul Laudicina, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024