How to Use irrelevant in a Sentence

irrelevant

adjective
  • His comment is completely irrelevant.
  • Also, the data for the mulching ratio for these machines strikes us as irrelevant.
    Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
  • So, anything that has happened since Jan. 5 is irrelevant.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2022
  • What the bill would actually do after the inevitable press release it was meant to generate seemed almost irrelevant.
    al, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Lots of irrelevant minutiae will indubitably be mixed into the setting.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The vote itself — about half a million votes so far, around 85 percent in favor of giving the decision to shareholders — is, of course, irrelevant.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In that case, the sudden-death phenomenon might happen at such high temperatures as to be irrelevant in real materials.
    Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2024
  • From Dylan Hernández: Secure the right venue on the right date and the opponent becomes almost irrelevant.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • The first two are often wrongly overshadowed by the third, but the tools, such as action plans, processes and systems, are nearly irrelevant without a vision and a rationale for change.
    Jane Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That none of the above is true is irrelevant to the Left.
    Dennis Prager, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Goals set at the beginning of the year are irrelevant by the third week of the year.
    Marcus Buckingham, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
  • That the kid is hoping to be on the team is irrelevant.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The justice of any protest's cause is irrelevant to the virus.
    Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
  • Because at the end of the day, Black lives aren’t irrelevant.
    Fortune, 18 June 2022
  • For many lured in by the meme, Salt Bae’s menu is irrelevant.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2022
  • As long as the mass, charge, and spin are the same, the history is irrelevant.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The state has argued the calls were irrelevant to the final verdict in the case.
    Dave Altimari, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Of course, in the playoffs that kind of depth is irrelevant.
    Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • That the six-time All-Star wasn’t his best self is irrelevant.
    Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
  • In both cases the risks are the same: that the rule book will become irrelevant.
    The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • That’s not to say that Facebook was irrelevant to the protests.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • That fact, in Lashlee’s mind, is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • But at the same time, the actual truth in all of this is irrelevant.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The city said the argument was irrelevant in light of the home being built in 1940.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The bet is that new, clean stuff will make the old, dirty stuff harmless or irrelevant.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • So whatever’s said in the heat of the game, that’s irrelevant.
    R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But that’s irrelevant to the point Jenkins wants to make.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The result of the bet is irrelevant, as this bonus will convey win or lose.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • So our view of this is, what happened to Georgetown in the past is irrelevant to us.
    Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2018
  • In their main brief in the case, lawyers for Colorado said the form was irrelevant to the court’s decision.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 3 July 2023

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