How to Use circumstantial in a Sentence

circumstantial

adjective

• The case against him is circumstantial.
• The evidence is purely circumstantial.
• But that doesn't mean all of the party's woes are circumstantial.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022
• The power of Salvador Ramos’ weapon was not a circumstantial aspect of the attack, but a central one.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
• In 2020, Chemirmir pleaded not guilty to all charges and his lawyers said that the cases against him are largely circumstantial.
  — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
• And circumstantial context does not even make the album a painful listen.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2021
• With your feet on this foundation, tend to the circumstantial things, starting with the bridal shower you’ve been assigned.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 23 June 2019
• With your feet on this foundation, tend to the circumstantial things, starting with the bridal shower you've been assigned.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• The sample size of up-tempo plays was too small, and their success was partly circumstantial.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• The evidence was circumstantial and could have happened after the fact.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
• What ended up intriguing me most about both shows was circumstantial — the variables that came with where they were performed.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• The evidence is circumstantial, but the virus has been linked to the same problem in humans and the connection is worth exploring, experts said.
  — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• The evidence is circumstantial, and no proof affirms Watkins’ role.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
• There are circumstantial reasons for the teacher to be concerned about Luce despite his good grades (most notably that a bag of fireworks was found in his gym locker).
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2019
• His attorney, Phillip Hayes, said that a lot of the evidence against Chemirmir is circumstantial.
  — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
• The wonder on his face, the circumstantial auspiciousness of that imagery — its fruity vividness — showed me to myself.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• In fact, there was not one piece of evidence, circumstantial or physical, linking McIntyre to the crime.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 June 2018
• While admitting that the case is circumstantial and some reasonable doubt remains, Pankoke et al.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2022
• This is hanging in the balance because all of this evidence, this isn't just circumstantial anymore.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
• The case is described to us as a true whodunit, one that relies purely on circumstantial and DNA evidence because there weren’t any witnesses to the killing.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
• Both circumstantial and physical evidence led to his arrest after her body was found in the trunk of her car outside a vacant home last week.
  — CBS News, 17 July 2019
• And if nothing else, the newest example builds the circumstantial case that something was afoot as Trump was trying to win the presidency.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• Other evidence also cast doubt on the confession, which the FBI failed to record or sustain with circumstantial proof.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Although genetic hair loss is the primary cause, how and when your hair falls out is largely circumstantial.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• Prosecutors laid out a circumstantial case against the pair.
  — Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• The lack of testing requirements after isolation is a reflection of how much of the CDC’s guidance is circumstantial rather than iron-clad.
  — Molly Osberg, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• All that circumstantial pomp, all those game-day faces and manners, colliding with so much backstage intrigue, away from prying eyes.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• That appears to be circumstantial relative to what the Blazers were doing on offense.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 23 Oct. 2020
• The evidence is generally circumstantial, and by the time scientists clue in, millions of years may have passed.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
• It was intended as a tribute to his and France’s everlasting glory, whereas the duo’s wrapped arch is a salute to circumstantial beauty.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021

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