How to Use negligible in a Sentence

negligible

adjective
  • A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle.
  • The price difference was negligible.
  • The wind can go from negligible to middling to mighty on the Old Course.
    New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • And the second season reaches the heights of the first, with a negligible bump here or there.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible.
    Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In terms of the impact on the business, so far, it’s been negligible.
    Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Ovadia points to a 2019 study which states that the risk is negligible.
    Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • George will rotate once even though the length around the seed is negligible.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • The direct impact of the bills on the course of the conflict is likely to be negligible.
    Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The brothers, who were paid negligible wages for their work, couldn’t afford the fee.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Yes, but in the 12-team playoff world, the impact may be negligible.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The Treasury has so far said the deal will have a negligible net impact.
    William Horobin and Christopher Condon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • In few other works in the canon are all of the characters but one so negligible.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But all the rest of the noise surrounding the network may be negligible.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The 49ers hope the drop-off from Mack is negligible or nonexistent.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
  • If the time difference between routes is negligible, the app defaults to the one that saves gas.
    Jacob Sweet, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The degree to which the new rules will affect the last-place Red Sox is probably negligible.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • And at some of the busiest airports, the wait times have had negligible increases or even decreased.
    Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That’s thanks in large part to the negligible price of solar and wind power, which was cratering even back in 2022.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Overall, tasters thought these issues were negligible, and the 365 tortillas placed solidly in the middle of the pack.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
  • No one can say for sure, but the program’s impact is likely to be negligible.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The torque injection more than makes up for the negligible horsepower drop; this Polestar 2 feels just as zippy as the old one.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But a negligible 2% said the GOP convention might change their minds.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • Of course, in this example, the difference in the passing of time is negligible.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • The difference between this 5-1 Ohio State team and a 6-0 team that might have managed to escape the Ducks is negligible.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • But given your whole picture, the benefit of a statin at this time for you is negligible.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 May 2022
  • The risk of pets transmitting the disease to humans is negligible, the center said.
    Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • So much of the scheming in these early episodes is rote and the action is completely negligible.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Intel says that the microcode updates have a negligible impact on performance.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The likelihood of this happening is basically negligible, as spiders prefer to stay away from larger animals like us.
    Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024

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