How to Use unimportant in a Sentence

unimportant

adjective
  • The name on the back of the jersey is unimportant — the team name on the front is.
    By Susan Vollenweider, kansascity, 28 June 2017
  • That doesn’t mean, of course, that the draft is unimportant.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
  • The piece is what you’re taught in school to disavow you of the idea that art is unimportant.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Those who don’t like the Olympics, shrug it off as unimportant.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2021
  • And all the things that happened in the real world felt unimportant for a time.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The fate of innocent birds might seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This is not to say that the character strengths at the bottom of the list are unimportant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • Would not have wanted to be on the outside of THAT unimportant stuff.
    Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The milestone — unimportant, of course, in the grand scheme of things — serves as a minor morale boost amid the doldrums of winter.
    oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Rules were in fact so unimportant that teams weren’t even playing with ping pong balls.
    Harry Levin, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Ohtani’s first hit of the season was unimportant in the context of the game, the grounder that skipped by a diving Tony Kemp failing to lead to any runs.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Some say why Kim is coming to the table is unimportant.
    Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 4 May 2018
  • This might sound like Sondheim is saying that the singing is unimportant.
    Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And here’s this guy who cares deeply about something that to her seems unimportant, music.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • An unimportant point, as the piece was a surprise delight.
    Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • This is a very boring and unimportant day in a string of similar ones.
    Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • The fate of either business is unimportant to the fate of the larger open source paradigm.
    Scott Gilbertson, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Few would argue that the deficit and debt are unimportant to our economy’s health.
    Julie Heath, Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2018
  • Who knew? Why is inheritance so unimportant as a source of wealth among the rich?
    Gregory Clark, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Short ranges and low top speed were unimportant for a milk round but near-silent running meant customers could sleep.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The clear subtext: This girl with Down syndrome's plight is unimportant.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • Some of the races are heart-stopping, while others feel weightless and unimportant.
    Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Whether Jones would get the half-sack needed to claim the bonus was one of the few storylines worth watching in a mostly unimportant game.
    Dan Greenspan, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Choose your battles — and try to keep quiet about unimportant things.
    Laurie Yarnell, Good Housekeeping, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The feeling of being, just for a moment, at the very center of the most important unimportant thing.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Five were ZoneAlarm bait files, and the other three were unimportant ancillary files.
    PCMAG, 30 July 2024
  • But also gender is not an unimportant part of our band.
    Bridget Read, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2018
  • That doesn’t mean Saban’s call was unimportant, though.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Were these items unimportant to their owners, who used them only as a bookmark?
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022
  • But a 27-6 La Salle halftime lead made what would be Catania''s first of three touchdowns seem unimportant.
    Jeremiah Kirven, Cincinnati.com, 2 Nov. 2019

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