How to Use infinitesimal in a Sentence

infinitesimal

adjective

• Your chances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time are infinitesimal.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2017
• Still, by the five-year mark, the fish had almost died off in the lake — near-extinction of a species due to an infinitesimal amount of a hormone.
  — Rachael Moeller Gorman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2012
• But there are a bunch of swing states in which statewide margins can be infinitesimal.
  — Pamela Karlan, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
• But both sides of the debate agree the odds of this happening are infinitesimal.
  — Dylan Walsh, The Atlantic, 2 May 2017
• The chances that the data were valid were infinitesimal.
  — Adam Marcus, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
• The culprit is the infinitesimal wires that create circuits on the chips.
  — Erin Blakemore, The Week, 29 Mar. 2018
• Fishing rights, which amounts to an infinitesimal sliver of trade between the neighbors, is the last big holdup.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
• Ashour’s strokes speed up the game, giving him an infinitesimal edge.
  — James Zug, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Assuming Boogie keeps his ego in check—and the Warriors’ culture seems to do a good job of that—the margin of error for this team went from small to infinitesimal.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• Then in the nineteenth century, the cell was discovered, and the single machine in its turn was found to be the product of millions of infinitesimal machines—the cells.
  — Loren C. Eiseley, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• Its case would have an infinitesimal chance of even being heard.
  — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• The odds of them dying in a crash were infinitesimal even before the model’s safety overhaul.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• The world order is completely imperiled by Russia, we are told, but at the same time, the risks to confronting this threat are infinitesimal.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• Even this little spot on this little planet in a galaxy that is but an infinitesimal speck in a universe, humans are wise to know their place.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• The negative health effects of DEET have been shown to be infinitesimal over billions of uses and a human lifetime of use.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 May 2018
• And again, the risk of getting the virus is way more deadly, way more scary than the minimal, infinitesimal risks that are associated with the vaccine.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Apr. 2021
• Since such craft have no more than an infinitesimal chance of being found, radio broadcasts from Earth, travelling at the speed of light, are more likely to make contact.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• That makes the chances of a further appeal infinitesimal, and the $1.6 million figure is likely final.
  — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2017
• Hank’s wife and Hope’s mother (and the original Wasp), who was trapped for thirty years in the infinitesimal, subatomic Quantum Realm.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• The margin for error is infinitesimal and getting slimmer by the day.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• What, one inquisitor asked, was the wavelength of the dim light, calculated in the infinitesimal unit of measurement known as angstroms?
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• While brutal for Bonfire’s early holders, infinitesimal prices are part of the appeal for many hype coin fans.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• He and Bergé were selling the ready-to-wear and fragrance portions of their business to Gucci Group, while retaining the infinitesimal haute-couture house for themselves.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 9 Sep. 2017
• The car is still nice, of course, but raising the canvas top over those infinitesimal rear seats and stretching it across the car’s wide, low body compromises every line the brand has worked so hard to develop and protect.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2018
• The syringes also must have low dead space — the infinitesimal distance between the plunger and the needle after the dose is fully injected — to minimize waste.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• No notion in physics may be more mind bending than a black hole, an infinitesimal pit in spacetime whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023
• By last week, Kritsky had received only 85 reports of stragglers, an infinitesimal speck when compared with the billions of bugs that swarmed us last year, right on schedule.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• Flagging down a boat in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere using low-power phone flashlights, ranks somewhere between infinitesimal and flat-out impossible.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• With the rise of frequency, as well as quantum mechanics, time began to be constructed from the ground up, using the infinitesimal frequencies of atoms, rather than from above, using the movement of celestial objects.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Her performance is effortful, with her plethora of infinitesimal decisions about gesture and inflection filling the film like the rush of code spilling down computer screens in spy-drama surveillance scenes.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023

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