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.
  • On the one hand, the investments in the budget are not insignificant.
    — Mary Kay Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • None of these costs are insignificant, and they're all reflected at the pump.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 10 July 2022
  • So, the fact Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers was able to end the night with three straight kneel-downs wasn’t insignificant.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For 2023, the important point in all of this is that not only can Texas still win on a day where the staff ace gets shelled, the carryover is insignificant.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, the number of GOP faithful who pledge their allegiance to Trump is not insignificant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But that the Constitution is made up of words is not insignificant.
    — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Sep. 2022
  • What may seem insignificant to us is a thriving universe for them.
    — Alessandro Clemente, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Ways that are, in big picture terms, insignificant, but also… kind of a bummer.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The Rotary volunteer, who wore a lime green bouffant gown to her own prom, has the not insignificant task of running the Prom Closet change rooms.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The Settlers contended their share was insignificant compared to all the other threats to salmon.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • None of this is to say that the repudiation of the 2020 election was insignificant or didn’t happen.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • On the face of it, the fight seemed insignificant, but then an exchange took place that changed the tenor of the argument, connecting us to the underlying roots of the issue.
    — Orna Guralnik, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean the lag is totally insignificant.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Small qualms are insignificant when there is so much to celebrate.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The impact on sedentary time was insignificant, according to the study.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But Consumer Reports found that opening the windows caused an insignificant drop in mpg, even at 65 mph.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe not from one another and your petty greed and insignificant dramas but from the greater madness.
    — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • And if your son or daughter is such a patient, then the number is certainly not insignificant.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Enter Email Sign Up While the jury will hear the recordings of both songs, probably many times, their lyrics — and vibes — are legally insignificant.
    — Andrew Dalton and Larry Neumeister, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023

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