How to Use benign in a Sentence

benign

adjective

• We were happy to hear that the tumor was benign.
• One theory, perhaps the most benign, is that regulators are whacking the company for forgetting its place.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 6 July 2021
• The obvious question for investors is whether these conditions—benign for manufacturers, less so for consumers—can last.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• But apparently that planning never happened, perhaps because the Colombians, or at least some of them, thought their mission was benign.
  — Fox News, 15 July 2021
• On June 7, just weeks before the start of the Olympic Trials, Thomas received the news that the tumor is benign and won't require surgery.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 June 2021
• Warm, in the benign sense of the word, but not hot, in the hostile sense, Friday departed from a July trend that has given us 14 days in the 90s already.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2021
• Although this painful phase eventually passed, a benign view of nature and rejection of medical intervention persisted.
  — Katherine A. Powers Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
• 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 Paralympics are more than a benign version of the Olympics.
  — Stephen Wade, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2021
• 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
• While the weather could play a role in this election, the forecast looks rather benign in much of the country on Nov. 5.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
• At first, the ghostly sightings are benign, but then the spirit asks to move into the doll.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 20 June 2017
• Uterine fibroids are benign tumors that grow in and around the uterus.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• But as with many things in life, a benign trend gone too far can become a problem.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• But the relatively benign outcomes of Trump’s first term in Latin America may now be breeding a certain complacency about his second.
  — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
• While shoplifting has been painted as a relatively benign crime and one that in the past didn’t carry particularly serious legal consequences, that has started to change as thieves have become more organized.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025