How to Use pertinence in a Sentence

pertinence

noun

• The pertinence of that last detail would become all too clear a little more than a decade later, with the Great Fire of 1872.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• He’ll be remembered for the high quality of his movies and for their pertinence.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 26 July 2022
• During these episodes players are given a small range of questions to choose from and are graded at the end of the interrogation on the pertinence of their choices.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• Bears talk a good story, and their voices gain pertinence in the financial media when stock markets are falling.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• It’s arrived nearly a year late in her hometown, but her disquieted art has only grown in pertinence and power.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• His stature in world history is arguably comparable too—and there is a special pertinence to his heritage.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• But energy analysts largely dismiss the cap’s pertinence to prices, and some say the market’s thinking seems muddled.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Yet the singularity of 1968 does not diminish its pertinence to our present turmoil.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2018
• Nnaji herself responded to Ava’s tweet shortly after — thanking her for her comments and shedding light on the film’s language pertinence.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2019
• There can be no denying the worth or pertinence of such an undertaking at a time when black men face acts of violence, incarceration and death on a seemingly day-to-day basis.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• And, despite his order, Highberger wrote that the legal landscape would benefit from an appeals court weighing in on the pertinence of AB5 and the Dynamex decision to the trucking industry.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• Now, however, attention must be paid to demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the Founders’ premises to places with the crackling energy of booming Arizona.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
• But realizing the play’s own kind of mortality—its slow shift from urgent cri de coeur to period piece mined for pertinence—bathes it in a loving new light, one that Elliott teases out gracefully in this production’s finest scenes.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
• Normally, the byzantine workings of academic-tenure review are of little pertinence to anyone beyond the individuals involved.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
• Fortunately, the Democratic field includes one person familiar with Thucydides’ warning and who is unafraid to assert its contemporary pertinence.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 14 July 2019
• More meetings with less institutional pertinence, more managing up.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 May 2021
• Considerations such as possible poetry pertinence are made based on responses to an intake questionnaire emailed after booking.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• In selecting signature causes, business pertinence beats democracy.
  — David Hessekiel, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024