How to Use benign in a Sentence

benign

adjective

• We were happy to hear that the tumor was benign.
• At its most benign, this is wishful thinking based on a difference of a few calories.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2022
• Maybe my father’s bigotry struck Calvin as mostly benign.
  — Richard Russo, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• The reality for food producers is turning out to be much more benign, many of them say.
  — Deena Shanker, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
• Even if these things aren’t actively helping us, doing them is relatively benign.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2022
• But fellow forward Thomas Bordeleau’s health outlook is not quite as benign.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Doctors considered the effects of alcohol on the fetus to be relatively benign.
  — Emma Yasinkski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
• Lead author Flett warns that parents need to be aware of the enormous mental, social and academic costs of perfectionism, and not to dismiss them as benign.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Fortunately, about 90% of tumors are noncancerous, also known as benign.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
• But piecemeal efforts that set prices to accommodate political goals, however benign, have not been enough in the past to control rampant inflation.
  — Dr. Philip Fischer, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Unusual and persistent changes in the texture of your stools can signal a host of potential issues, and for most people the underlying cause is usually benign.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Feb. 2022
• Scotts Creek, which runs right by Josh’s house and is usually benign enough, swelled and formed a deadly confluence with the Tuckasegee River.
  — Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
• Farther south, the effects of the heat are less benign.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• In the moment, that Marisnick did not catch the ball was benign.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• Closer to the surface of the Earth, the effect is not so benign.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
• More benign footage has been removed from the video, as well.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 July 2023
• Odds are the lump is benign, and your guy may not need to address it at all.
  — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• There are about 4,000 species of snails worldwide and most are benign.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 5 Aug. 2020
• But the tumor was benign, and Quinn had surgery to enable him to live with the tumor.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
• Some of the pictures are as benign as a day at the beach, but others smack of danger.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• The intent might be as benign as the creative use of language.
  — Robert Myers, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2019
• The current that cut that canyon looks shallow and benign.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 11 Dec. 2020
• The benign terra cotta heads were deemed by some to be racist.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• But the most dispiriting sounds of all are often the most benign.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2022
• Doctors removed the mass, which turned out to be benign.
  — al, 26 Apr. 2021
• Sulin, in turn, assured her daughter that the growth was benign.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• That might seem benign, or perhaps even endearing—the sound of the bustle of the big city.
  — Kate Wagner, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2018
• At first, the ghostly sightings are benign, but then the spirit asks to move into the doll.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017
• His character’s disorder, neurofibromatosis, is caused by a genetic mutation and presents as benign tumors growing in the nervous system.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024