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 team rode five years of marginal gains to eight golds in the 2008 Olympics.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 14 Sep. 2021
• The stock has made a marginal new high and has now traced out a pair of lower highs.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The rest of north Alabama, and a slice of the state from the northeast to the southwest part of the state, will have a marginal risk.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Feb. 2022
• 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
• And just like in bike racing, no marginal gain was too small.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• 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
• If the queen holds, there is a marginal improvement on this line.
  — Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• 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 is a marginal risk for severe weather along and west of I-35W.
  — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
• The story of the 2024 election map in Wisconsin is a story of small shifts and marginal trend lines.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 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
• The issue is always seen as a soft issue, or we're seen as marginal.
  — Ai-Jen Poo, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021
• 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
• Most of the sales growth came from a rise in selling prices, which outweighed a marginal drop in sales volume across markets.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• 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
• So what the Democrats have turned to is a plan to hike the marginal rate on America’s roughly 700 billionaires.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Studies there have showed a marginal increase in math and reading skills for some school grades.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Reducing personnel from six to four takes weight out of the boat and increases the likelihood of getting the F50 foiling in marginal conditions.
  — Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
• Private companies pay a 21 percent marginal corporate-income-tax rate, and hedge fund investors ...
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 15 Mar. 2025