How to Use minuscule in a Sentence

minuscule

adjective
Definition of minusculenext
Synonyms for minusculenext
  • The take-rate is only about 1.7%, up from 1%, Moody said, but that’s still a minuscule slice of the market.
    — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The odds of the Blazers not finishing with the fifth-worst record are minuscule.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
  • To start with, your chance of winning the grand prize is minuscule, at one in 302.5 million.
    — Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • The mark was minuscule, but the details of holding, the rookie has learned, have to be perfect: Catch the ball.
    — Matt Cohen, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2022
  • In the grand scheme of things, that’s still minuscule — equivalent to taking about 22 cars off the road for a year.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
  • That’s when — about 100 feet from the entrance of the cave — the team discovered a minuscule creature.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Oh, gosh, the odds of making any money on this song are so minuscule.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Wilson is there, a minuscule figure on the deck of the destroyer.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Our thoughts: This was the biggest disappointment of the trip -- same thin broth with a minuscule amount of ground beef.
    — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The minuscule nib has a teardrop shape for artful sculpting and stealthy shading.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Even if the upgrades feel minuscule, the iPhone 14 Pro still has one of the best mobile camera systems out there.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 19 July 2023
  • The margin between winning and losing, even among the best and worst, can be minuscule.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The length of a day also fluctuates by a minuscule amount from month to month, season to season, and year to year.
    — Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Right above her wrist, on the left side of her left hand, is a truly minuscule new tattoo of the sweetest little bow.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Philippines buys only a minuscule amount of oil from Russia.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2022
  • But, that didn’t stop me from trying, in ways both minuscule and defining.
    — Time, 7 June 2023
  • The cost of transgender care is minuscule when compared to the overall size of the defense budget.
    — Svetlana Shkolnikova Stars and Stripes (tns), al, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But years had turned to a decade, Tunisians’ budgets had gone from modest to minuscule, and now nobody was giving.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Your chances of winning are minuscule — about 1 in 292 million.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The community may be minuscule, but the night sky views are massive.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This minuscule amphibian is only about a third of an inch long and can fit comfortably on a dime with room to spare.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The minuscule margins for error in the sport took Jacobellis time to process and accept.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Despite minuscule profits, child care businesses are not cheap to get off the ground.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
  • John Alt’s contract as a first-round draft pick in 1984 was sizeable, but minuscule compared to today’s deals.
    — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
  • With modern shifts, the gap between a second baseman and a right fielder is minuscule.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
  • To reach even this minuscule climate impact, the law would have to be kept intact over the rest of the decade, across four more Congresses and two presidential terms.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, the minuscule bits can migrate through the tissues of the digestive tract or lungs into the bloodstream.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The number of units controlled by Carlyle and other firms remains a minuscule slice of the overall housing stock.
    — Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody knows, but keep in mind that, unlike the rest of the world, China has had a minuscule number of infections since the pandemic took hold.
    — Alexis Davies, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This new stop-motion show features a Tiny Chef serving minuscule dishes in his tiny kitchen.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2022

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