How to Use irrelevance in a Sentence

irrelevance

noun

• That might be just what the 72-year-old award show needs to stave off irrelevance.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2020
• But first, this flawed team must play out the string in irrelevance.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
  — Brooke Gladstone, Slate Magazine, 18 May 2017
• Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• In order to avoid a crash back to irrelevance in 2021, there was work to do on the defensive side of the ball. ...
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• But for a man like Bergé, nearing the end of his life, the struggle is not so much against time as against irrelevance.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2017
• Which is why college bowl games and the NIT have been minimized to a point of near-irrelevance over the years.
  — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 8 Aug. 2019
• Mr Singh must pull his party back from the brink of irrelevance.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2017
• By the late 1950s, the Stork Club began to erode into irrelevance.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us, Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
• The format and the broadcast had drifted so close to irrelevance for years.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2021
• Swift and Bridgers sing about the passage of time and the inevitability of their irrelevance.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
• What is good in Trump's world is relevance, and what is bad -- a fate worse than death -- is irrelevance.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 15 July 2021
• The other leagues would need to adapt or shrivel to irrelevance.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Cut off from the state, the church risked sliding into irrelevance.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• In order to avoid a crash back to irrelevance in 2021, there was work to do on the defensive side of the ball this offseason.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2021
• That’s the homegrown trio that took the Warriors from irrelevance and laughingstock status to the top of the mountain.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• The irrelevance of the game for both sides will detract from the offensive output.
  — Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 24 Dec. 2019
• The Reds lost 100 games last season, part of what has been a long period of irrelevance.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• To do so would doom the Hornets to another five years of irrelevance.
  — Scott Fowler, charlotteobserver, 3 June 2019
• But is all hope lost for Democrats hoping to stem the GOP and escape further irrelevance?
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2022
• That was 12 straight months of irrelevance, one losing season on top of the other.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• But ever since, the franchise had been stuck in a cycle of irrelevance.
  — Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• And fears a looming irrelevance and even more neglect in the shadow of the city’s shiny-new stadium.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 Jan. 2022
• But that threat of irrelevance is exactly what makes the league so riveting, week in and week out.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
• This, after all, is a company that looked to be on the verge of extinction — or at least irrelevance — in 2003.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
• The planner, after decades of irrelevance, or worse, might yet be a figure of note—and perhaps, in a time of crisis, one of purpose.
  — Nikil Saval, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
• But the irrelevance of wins has never been more telling than when broaching the subject of Colon surpassing Marichal.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• Way to doom the Pacers to irrelevance for the foreseeable future.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2017
• Failure to secure deals for major games, either allowing Sony to sweep in or the developer simply not being interested due to Xbox’s increasingly tiny market share and relative irrelevance in most of the world.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024