How to Use negligible in a Sentence

negligible

adjective

• A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle.
• The price difference was negligible.
• The wind can go from negligible to middling to mighty on the Old Course.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• And the second season reaches the heights of the first, with a negligible bump here or there.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2022
• In terms of the impact on the business, so far, it’s been negligible.
  — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Ovadia points to a 2019 study which states that the risk is negligible.
  — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• George will rotate once even though the length around the seed is negligible.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• The direct impact of the bills on the course of the conflict is likely to be negligible.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• The brothers, who were paid negligible wages for their work, couldn’t afford the fee.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
• Yes, but in the 12-team playoff world, the impact may be negligible.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Treasury has so far said the deal will have a negligible net impact.
  — William Horobin and Christopher Condon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• In few other works in the canon are all of the characters but one so negligible.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• But all the rest of the noise surrounding the network may be negligible.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• The 49ers hope the drop-off from Mack is negligible or nonexistent.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
• In between, though, there was a non-negligible amount of chaos.
  — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
• And in the biggest games of the season, Tyree’s carries were negligible.
  — Tyler James, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2021
• If the time difference between routes is negligible, the app defaults to the one that saves gas.
  — Jacob Sweet, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
• The degree to which the new rules will affect the last-place Red Sox is probably negligible.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• To the untrained eye, this is a small, almost negligible, jump.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2021
• And at some of the busiest airports, the wait times have had negligible increases or even decreased.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
• That’s thanks in large part to the negligible price of solar and wind power, which was cratering even back in 2022.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2022
• Overall, tasters thought these issues were negligible, and the 365 tortillas placed solidly in the middle of the pack.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
• No one can say for sure, but the program’s impact is likely to be negligible.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• Except that the Biden tax proposals would have a negligible impact on the taxes paid by the richest of the rich.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 9 June 2021
• One case with costs like that might be negligible for a company like Arise.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 3 Aug. 2021
• The torque injection more than makes up for the negligible horsepower drop; this Polestar 2 feels just as zippy as the old one.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 6 Sep. 2023
• But a negligible 2% said the GOP convention might change their minds.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• Prosecution could act as a deterrent for potential future offenders -- though a prison sentence would be highly unlikely, and the fine could be considered negligible to a billionaire, Spencer added.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• Album sales and track-equivalent albums comprise a negligible amount of activity.
  — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025