How to Use irrelevance in a Sentence

irrelevance

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trump’s finances afloat but also rescued his brand from the brink of irrelevance.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 28 Sep. 2020
• But with the arrival of three new conservatives, Roberts found himself in an unexpected position: potential irrelevance.
  — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024