How to Use trivial in a Sentence

trivial

adjective
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  • Compared to her problems, our problems seem trivial.
  • There’s a lot of good stuff, and there’s a lot of trash and trivial stuff.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The crux of the tragedy is a trivial element of roadwork.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Bug bites seem to be the universe’s way of slapping us on the wrist for our trivial wrongs.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
  • There's no need to make a big deal out of something that might turn out to be trivial in the end.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The fines are trivial compared to their revenue streams.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Above all else, the products Trump was selling were half-baked and trivial.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022
  • People spend up to 90% of their time indoors, so the question of whether or not to wear shoes in the house is not a trivial one.
    — Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s will be trivial.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Her need for food and water was almost trivial, but not quite.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • My girlfriend has a penchant for long stories, many times on the phone, which are trivial.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Compared to what might have been, the disruption was trivial.
    — al, 22 May 2022
  • Also, contrary to what folks might think, the ring doesn’t make combat trivial.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • Dear Amy: Not a question, but a comment: Why are some of the issues raised in your column so trivial?
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Dear Amy: Not a question, but a comment: Why are some of the issues raised in your columns so trivial?
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • For most of the decades since its creation by Congress in 1938, the use of de minimis was small—as trivial as intended.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Sports may be trivial, but people pay attention to those who play and coach sports.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • Variations that seem trivial to humans, like the type of lighting in a room or the shape of the chips bag, could cause malfunctions.
    — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Many of these are trivial, but this book is determined to capture every detail of both the music and the life.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • How can these minute and trivial issues be what makes his absence so much larger?
    — Michael Croley, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Chief among these was a decision that now seems trivial but at the time seemed crucial: What should our baby sleep in?
    — Annie Midori Atherton, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But to the Ukrainians, who were suddenly in a fight for survival, these shipments seemed trivial.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • And while the show takes very heavy topics and treats them in a lighthearted way her true mission is anything but trivial.
    — Devaughn Douglas, Essence, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Selling the dream is a non-trivial exercise that often hinges on who the messenger is.
    — Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The risk or incursion was not much examined at the time, because the new toy then seemed trivial and warm-hearted.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There were nights Rose and Raury would sit and stare at the stars and discuss matters of great and trivial importance with equal delight.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • Considering the existential threat to our lives, the loss of a few spring blooms could seem like a trivial complaint.
    — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • But inconsistencies are trivial so long as the doubletalk suits Bach and the IOC's end purpose.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the late ’90s, federal student debt was so trivial that the government didn’t even measure it.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
  • The cover-up was what mattered; the underlying crime was trivial.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2022

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