How to Use minuscule in a Sentence

minuscule

1 of 2 adjective

• The take-rate is only about 1.7%, up from 1%, Moody said, but that’s still a minuscule slice of the market.
  — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The odds of the Blazers not finishing with the fifth-worst record are minuscule.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
• To start with, your chance of winning the grand prize is minuscule, at one in 302.5 million.
  — Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2022
• The mark was minuscule, but the details of holding, the rookie has learned, have to be perfect: Catch the ball.
  — Matt Cohen, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2022
• In the grand scheme of things, that’s still minuscule — equivalent to taking about 22 cars off the road for a year.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
• That’s when — about 100 feet from the entrance of the cave — the team discovered a minuscule creature.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Oh, gosh, the odds of making any money on this song are so minuscule.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2023
• Wilson is there, a minuscule figure on the deck of the destroyer.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Our thoughts: This was the biggest disappointment of the trip -- same thin broth with a minuscule amount of ground beef.
  — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• The minuscule nib has a teardrop shape for artful sculpting and stealthy shading.
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• Even if the upgrades feel minuscule, the iPhone 14 Pro still has one of the best mobile camera systems out there.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• The margin between winning and losing, even among the best and worst, can be minuscule.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
• The length of a day also fluctuates by a minuscule amount from month to month, season to season, and year to year.
  — Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
• Right above her wrist, on the left side of her left hand, is a truly minuscule new tattoo of the sweetest little bow.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2023
• The Philippines buys only a minuscule amount of oil from Russia.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• But, that didn’t stop me from trying, in ways both minuscule and defining.
  — Time, 7 June 2023
• The cost of transgender care is minuscule when compared to the overall size of the defense budget.
  — Svetlana Shkolnikova Stars and Stripes (tns), al, 13 Jan. 2023
• But years had turned to a decade, Tunisians’ budgets had gone from modest to minuscule, and now nobody was giving.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• Your chances of winning are minuscule — about 1 in 292 million.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• The community may be minuscule, but the night sky views are massive.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
• This minuscule amphibian is only about a third of an inch long and can fit comfortably on a dime with room to spare.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• The minuscule margins for error in the sport took Jacobellis time to process and accept.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Despite minuscule profits, child care businesses are not cheap to get off the ground.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
• John Alt’s contract as a first-round draft pick in 1984 was sizeable, but minuscule compared to today’s deals.
  — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
• With modern shifts, the gap between a second baseman and a right fielder is minuscule.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
• To reach even this minuscule climate impact, the law would have to be kept intact over the rest of the decade, across four more Congresses and two presidential terms.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, the minuscule bits can migrate through the tissues of the digestive tract or lungs into the bloodstream.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• The number of units controlled by Carlyle and other firms remains a minuscule slice of the overall housing stock.
  — Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Nobody knows, but keep in mind that, unlike the rest of the world, China has had a minuscule number of infections since the pandemic took hold.
  — Alexis Davies, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• This new stop-motion show features a Tiny Chef serving minuscule dishes in his tiny kitchen.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2022

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minuscule

2 of 2 noun

• Better, but only by the most minuscule of margins. 192.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• Remember when one minuscule-yet-precise X-Wing blew up a space station that could destroy planets?
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2017
• There's the minuscule, probably healthy decision to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 30 Mar. 2017
• With follower counts ranging from minuscule to massive, choosing the right partnerships can significantly impact a brand.
  — Kelly Ehlers, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Dambrogio had noticed minuscule, apparently intentional cuts and creases in a number of historical documents and eventually guessed their purpose.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021
• Better, but only by the most minuscule of margins. 192.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• Remember when one minuscule-yet-precise X-Wing blew up a space station that could destroy planets?
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2017
• There's the minuscule, probably healthy decision to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 30 Mar. 2017
• With follower counts ranging from minuscule to massive, choosing the right partnerships can significantly impact a brand.
  — Kelly Ehlers, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Dambrogio had noticed minuscule, apparently intentional cuts and creases in a number of historical documents and eventually guessed their purpose.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021

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