How to Use vanishingly in a Sentence

vanishingly

adverb

• That makes for a tight race for a vanishingly small portion of roles.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Magnetars are tiny in the scheme of space—just about 12 miles across—and vanishingly rare in the Milky Way, at maybe just a few dozen.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
• The list of rap artists who have stayed at the top of their game into the second half of their forties is vanishingly short.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2022
• The odds that the 36-year-old is going to be a contributor on the next good Jazz team are just vanishingly small.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• The other was captured in February of this year, and the amount of sea ice is vanishingly small.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
• And the answer to that question is - is vanishingly small.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2024
• Good news, these past four years, has been vanishingly sparse, like a handful of lilies in a fallow field.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
• This is vanishingly small, even in a world where re-entries are numbered in the hundreds per year.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• And old growth already is vanishingly rare in the province — and going fast.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
• Jupiter sped the spacecraft up by thousands of miles per hour and Cassini, in turn, slowed Jupiter’s orbit down by a vanishingly tiny amount.
  — TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• But high school and college math — even a lot of graduate school math — is a vanishingly small part of the overall knowledge.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
• But the plan to erect the concrete berm on the pristine beach, a vanishingly rare commodity in Japan, is not just about money or votes.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Roundabouts were vanishingly rare in the United States back then.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2022
• In contrast to the climate crisis, vanishingly few people think the child care crisis is a hoax.
  — Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
• Jackson’s windows to throw the ball were vanishingly small.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
• The chances that Cannizzaro would do so seemed vanishingly small.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• But the chance of Trump winning the popular vote outright is vanishingly small.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2020
• Despite being the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, iron is vanishingly scarce in the modern ocean.
  — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• Tungsten meanwhile comes from a vanishingly small number of mines, many of which are in China.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• The good news is that, in contrast to the personal impact on Neymar, the consequences for Brazil will be vanishingly small.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The odds of dealing with both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time seem vanishingly rare.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 9 May 2024
• Of course, the likelihood of one person winning it all is vanishingly small.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2022
• The structures etched on these microchips are vanishingly small.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The film also feels like something vanishingly rare these days: a big-screen drama with budget and scope, richly told for grown adults.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• While instances of voter fraud in U.S. elections are vanishingly rare, this is the latest scheme to rock a high school election in recent years.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• These stories are noteworthy because the odds of being in precisely the wrong place at the wrong time are vanishingly slim.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Voter fraud is vanishingly small, less than your chance of being struck by lightning.
  — Caitlin Rublee and René Settle-Robinson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2020
• The number of people that are likely to be affected by this is vanishingly small.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021
• For now, though, the chances of a high income earner being audited by the IRS remain vanishingly low.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Because of a highly reflective wall in the middle, the particle has a vanishingly small probability of tunneling through to the right-hand side of the cylinder.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024