How to Use insignificant in a Sentence

insignificant

adjective
  • Looking up at the stars always makes me feel so small and insignificant.
  • They lost an insignificant amount of money.
  • These problems are not insignificant.
  • And Trump, in the broad scheme of things, is insignificant.
    Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In the grand scheme of things, these are all insignificant.
    Leah Asmelash and Brandon Tensley, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
  • But the term feels insignificant in the aftermath of the Eras Tour.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
  • That was insignificant to many people, but not to those who bet on the game.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024
  • And the amount of deaths in children is not insignificant.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 31 July 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the rally from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to win was insignificant.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • On the one hand, the investments in the budget are not insignificant.
    Mary Kay Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The details are not insignificant, and the journey is not an easy one.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • And even the more insignificant like Dwayne Haskins and Luke Falk.
    Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And while all of this is good to know, let’s not fool ourselves; This event is not insignificant.
    Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Then there is the allure of the not insignificant anonymity of a largely TMZ-free zone.
    Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The loss of Al-Shaair, who started 22 games the past two seasons, is not insignificant.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The Rangers may have been outshot, but the two teams combined for an insignificant 51 shots.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Page had a rather insignificant role in the Trump campaign.
    CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • But that shot wasn't insignificant for the All-American as the No.
    Dana Scott, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Some not-so-insignificant hurdles have been cleared in the process.
    Brian Peccarelli, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The flowers are small and insignificant, if present at all.
    Dallas News, 22 June 2020
  • None of these costs are insignificant, and they're all reflected at the pump.
    Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 10 July 2022
  • In other words, Lorde wrote this song while in some kind of non-insignificant pain.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 11 June 2021
  • Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And thus, with some not-insignificant face cracks, Rosé and Denali are safe once again.
    Paul McCallion, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Man has already made changes in the map of nature that are not few nor insignificant.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
  • To make this quite clear: There is a not-so-insignificant risk of a government shut down right now.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • That's not insignificant since this will beis the 55th title game.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Moral issues are not insignificant, but they can be dealt with in time.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This was something Flora thought about often—the necklace wearing the woman, like the necklace was a symbiotic creature, a barnacle upon a whale, a relatively insignificant thing that attached itself to something greater.
    Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025

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