How to Use marginal in a Sentence

marginal

adjective

• There has been only a marginal improvement in her condition.
• His reading and writing abilities are marginal.
• The rest of the state still has a Level 1 out of 5 (or marginal) risk for severe weather.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 May 2022
• In that, Biden’s hands are trying to use the marginal knowledge of Harris to work for them.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 25 July 2024
• Some of the blame for the marginal cooling ability of the A/C must go to the Samurai's convertible top.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
• The marginal risk area has been pushed a bit southward in the latest update.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 1 June 2022
• Even small, marginal gains can have a big impact at scale.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• It should be noted that the broader S&P500 returned a marginal growth over the last month.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• But that’s still going to be marginal in terms of what happened.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• There are things that, at first blush, might appear marginal but are in truth major.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Tavares called it a small or marginal piece of the automaker's business.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2022
• But races are long enough that this is a mostly marginal factor.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• Front-wheel drive Outlanders see a marginal improvement of 24 city and 31 mpg on the highway.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Jan. 2023
• Add the high tax rates in states such as California or New York to the federal rate, and the top marginal rate is more than 50%.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• Most analysts still suggest the election could be anything from a marginal win for the GOP to a blowout.
  — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2022
• Crew chief Ed Malloy said after the game that the contact between the players was marginal and no foul should have been called.
  — Brian Mahoney, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• However, the rate of decline last year was marginal compared with the size of the influx of new state arts dollars.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• But for the Heat, such marginal additions are not even a talking point at the moment, with the team hard up against the luxury tax.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• The tornado threat is minimal in the marginal risk area.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2023
• The brief ceasefire brought only marginal calm to some parts of the capital, Khartoum.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
• These are not gag gifts … this is not marginal stoner humor.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• But in Alabama the raise has only been marginal, by 3%.
  — Stryens-Fernandes, al, 10 May 2023
• Goal-line technology has ended debate over marginal calls in terms of whether the ball has crossed the line.
  — James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
• And two-thirds of the world’s agricultural lands are grazing lands, many of which are too steep, arid or marginal to be suitable for crops.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• The Storm Prediction Center has the area under a Level 1 of 5 marginal risk for the region.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• The images show chlorotic leaves with slightly green veins and some with marginal burning.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• The agency did note a marginal detectable effect in the data that James Webb outputs.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
• Yes, but the savings are marginal, according to Google Flights.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• The range spans from what is believed to be Russia’s marginal cost of production and the price of its oil before the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, the people said.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• But even the most marginal factors in a closely divided state such as Wisconsin can matter.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024