How to Use insignificance in a Sentence

insignificance

noun

• That means traits are not steadily diluted to the point of insignificance.
  — Richard Conniff, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
• But once people's confidence in their own skills was used to adjust the outcome, the wage gap shrank to insignificance.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
• All these weird omissions and errors pale into insignificance compared to the total absence of text in the movie.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• If the improvement happens and the Ducks go toe-to-toe with Ohio State, this week’s bumbles and stumbles will fade into insignificance.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2021
• All of Salah's awards will pale into insignificance compared to the Champions League, which Liverpool could win for the first time since 2005.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• And, for most of us, learning how to be happy actually means coming to terms with our own insignificance.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• But the best representation of how misleading this spin about the insignificance of a final CBO score was?
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
• Daughters and sons should call home in gratitude for the relative insignificance of their own parents’ sins.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• The city’s sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
  — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
• Manager David Moyes may be kicking himself for starting Collins in this match, with its insignificance to their hardships in the league campaign.
  — SI.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The author draws us into the journey, as Rachel leaves behind not only a world of sugar cane fields and savage dogs, but also her own insignificance.
  — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• By the 1970s, populations of large whales had dwindled to insignificance.
  — Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
• And that is why winning the FA Cup this season, for all its insignificance in the grand scheme of things, might represent a significant step forward for this youthful Spurs team.
  — SI.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• All of which fades into insignificance the instant you're confronted with bad roads or rotten weather.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
• The show’s decision to end the series with someone who is not a Roy in name or blood as the CEO of the life-consuming corportate firm at the center of its drama is indicative of its insignificance.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 29 May 2023
• Which brings us to the significance – or insignificance – of Sunday’s game against the Washington Redskins.
  — Paul Domowitch, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• There is something beautiful about recognizing the person you were meant to be, and the insignificance of things some put so much significance in.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 May 2018
• The Nazi subplot, central to Kaplan's book, also melts away into insignificance here.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2018
• Wars fought in the shadow of nuclear clouds would make past sacrifices pale into insignificance.
  — Robert H. Scales, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
• The other — the assumption of insignificance, of being swept into greater momentum — is pragmatic, from someone born in the East.
  — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• To act at all today—in relation to communities, in relation to the climate—requires an embrace of one’s own insignificance in the larger scheme of things.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• The purpose of the lesson is not necessarily a cold insignificance.
  — Avery Ellfeldt, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2021
• Strange phenomena call our attention to the sprawling nature of time and our own insignificance.
  — Michael Friedrich, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• Their bitcoin profits pale into insignificance compared with the riches bestowed on Michael Poutre, at least on paper.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• There is escapist entertainment, the value of which lies precisely in its ultimate insignificance, serving as a kind of release valve for the pressure of our day-to-day lives.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Samsung’s market share in China has dwindled to near insignificance as competitors like Huawei and Xiaomi got the upper hand.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The British troupe’s sketches include gluttony, birth control and total insignificance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Sometimes, a game of football pales into insignificance.
  — SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Yet the scene, for all its dramatic insignificance, also sets up a fundamental misogynist dichotomy that’s at the core of the film: the division of women into two camps, mothers and whores.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• The program desperately needed a shakeup, and this alliance may be the answer because there’s nothing worse than insignificance as a Power Five program.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024