How to Use insignificant in a Sentence

insignificant

adjective
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  • Looking up at the stars always makes me feel so small and insignificant.
  • They lost an insignificant amount of money.
  • These problems are not insignificant.
  • The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024
  • And the amount of deaths in children is not insignificant.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 31 July 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the rally from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to win was insignificant.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • On the one hand, the investments in the budget are not insignificant.
    — Mary Kay Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The details are not insignificant, and the journey is not an easy one.
    — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • And even the more insignificant like Dwayne Haskins and Luke Falk.
    — Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Then there is the allure of the not insignificant anonymity of a largely TMZ-free zone.
    — Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The loss of Al-Shaair, who started 22 games the past two seasons, is not insignificant.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The Rangers may have been outshot, but the two teams combined for an insignificant 51 shots.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Some not-so-insignificant hurdles have been cleared in the process.
    — Brian Peccarelli, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • None of these costs are insignificant, and they're all reflected at the pump.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 10 July 2022
  • In other words, Lorde wrote this song while in some kind of non-insignificant pain.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 11 June 2021
  • Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To make this quite clear: There is a not-so-insignificant risk of a government shut down right now.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Moral issues are not insignificant, but they can be dealt with in time.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • There is no advantage too insignificant or edge too small when the stakes are this large and the margin this slim.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
  • So, the fact Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was able to end the night with three straight kneel-downs wasn’t insignificant.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • That Oseary let his hair go gray is not insignificant, as the 49-year-old had been dyeing it for the better part of two decades.
    — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 28 July 2022
  • Some will call all this petty and insignificant, but UAB to the Big 12 shouldn’t be considered a joke.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Any rainfall would be light, insignificant, and not last that long.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • The fact that the reaction to Pugh’s dress happened against the backdrop of the overturning of Roe v. Wade is not insignificant.
    — Carli Whitwell, refinery29.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Reds slid out of the wild-card race throughout September, but Suárez’s surge wasn’t insignificant.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2021
  • If a person thinks that the thing that happened in their life is insignificant, then nothing will change from there.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The thing is, at the time these tiny Christian sects having these debates were insignificant!
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • These issues persisted for weeks—not an insignificant amount of time for a fish that lives for about a year.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2021
  • These strikes are not insignificant and do demonstrate that there is still some hope for the future of the IQAF’s premier jet fighter.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That is an insignificant proportion of the overall sum that will be allocated.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

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