How to Use irrelevant in a Sentence

irrelevant

adjective
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  • His comment is completely irrelevant.
  • Goals set at the beginning of the year are irrelevant by the third week of the year.
    — Marcus Buckingham, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
  • That none of the above is true is irrelevant to the Left.
    — Dennis Prager, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The state has argued the calls were irrelevant to the final verdict in the case.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The justice of any protest's cause is irrelevant to the virus.
    — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
  • Of course, in the playoffs that kind of depth is irrelevant.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • In both cases the risks are the same: that the rule book will become irrelevant.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • But at the same time, the actual truth in all of this is irrelevant.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But now the contents of the bill are largely irrelevant.
    — Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • What is a mock draft if not a reading of irrelevant tea leaves?
    — Joe Freeman, OregonLive.com, 1 June 2017
  • The result of the bet is irrelevant, as this bonus will convey win or lose.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • But that talent would be irrelevant if the songs weren't strong.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The mud is irrelevant at this point as everyone headbangs along to the song.
    — Ryan Middleton, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2017
  • As long as the mass, charge, and spin are the same, the history is irrelevant.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The bet is that new, clean stuff will make the old, dirty stuff harmless or irrelevant.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That’s not to say that Facebook was irrelevant to the protests.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 29 June 2023
  • Because at the end of the day, Black lives aren’t irrelevant.
    — Fortune, 18 June 2022
  • The standards by which art and artists are judged has become irrelevant.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2020
  • So whatever’s said in the heat of the game, that’s irrelevant.
    — R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But that’s irrelevant to the point Jenkins wants to make.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Both plays went the other way from him, but that’s irrelevant.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • So our view of this is, what happened to Georgetown in the past is irrelevant to us.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2018
  • The fact that carbon-free power plants are in the mix is, then, irrelevant.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • But the lawsuit argued that what, or who, was to blame was irrelevant.
    — Scott Sonner, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • But comparing the deal to past draft-day trades is irrelevant.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The matchup wasn’t ideal – right on right – but that was irrelevant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Still, personal stats like those start to become irrelevant if the team has to head home with a loss.
    — Emily Giambalvo, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
  • In a lot of ways, a guide to being single has become irrelevant.
    — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Whether the two are starters or not is irrelevant, given the way sub packages are deployed.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2017

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