How to Use germane in a Sentence

germane

adjective

• Apply your spare time to studying a subject that is germane to your career.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
• All of this seems more germane to the Voting Rights Act arguments.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 May 2016
• Nothing that is not germane to his work as a consulting detective is allowed to clutter up his mind.
  — Simon Callow, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• But prosecutors can counter that the past misconduct is not germane to the specific case being tried.
  — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Whether there are good uses for the currencies isn’t really germane, and there don’t appear to be, at least not yet.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• He was mystified that the foundation would keep information from judges that is germane to their duties as voters.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• The fact that the owner was not the person (involved in the alleged prostitution) does not really seem to be germane to our ordinances.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 23 Oct. 2019
• Bork and his supporters argued that his "academic" writings and his speeches were not germane to whether he should be confirmed.
  — Elizabeth Drew, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 1987
• Thus, the Trump administration has decided to pretend that those worries are germane to the agreement.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Sep. 2017
• Byrne said that any call for gun control would require careful scrutiny to see if proposals were germane to the situation and legally viable.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• These concepts are germane to both the current black political and media moment, as well as in figuring out just what to think about Parker.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2016
• House members said this bill would fix the sunset issues, despite Patrick’s earlier claims that an amendment on the bill wasn’t germane and wouldn’t fix the problem.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram.com, 28 May 2017
• Republicans can challenge amendments as not being germane or not being budgetary in nature.
  — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
• Why did Mark Zuckerberg not disclose him to Congress, especially when that would have been extremely germane to the subject of the hearing?
  — David Carroll, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• Beaverton police ask anyone who might have information that might be germane to the homicide investigation to contact Det.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• If a good portion of Siri’s functionality isn’t even germane to the desktop experience, why even deliver a port?
  — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
• Or perhaps his anti-Trump, pro-Clinton sentiments were not germane to his mere copy editing or his reliance on a thesaurus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• From time to time, engineers and scientists hold conferences … where they trot out ideas they have developed, frequently ideas germane to solving practical problems.
  — Jane Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations, (1984) 1985
• Second Circuit: The auction house must produce documents germane to the foreign litigation.
  — Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
• The insight of the movie - delivered amid a torrent of half-germane, half-gratuitous raunch - is that lust, dissatisfaction and restlessness have a way of manifesting themselves at every age and stage of life.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2017
• Because some recent winters have been wet and California’s big reservoirs are fuller than average, prophesies of a dry year ahead are not as worrisome, though the question of snow remains germane.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Giuliani’s press release was directly germane to Yovanovitch’s testimony.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
• When a Republican legislator objected to the amendment as not being germane to the underlying bill, the Democratic majority stopped the debate.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 4 May 2018
• While the state offers top-notch airports, hotel accommodations and restaurants, that’s actually not the most germane component for application approval.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the end, even as American and United close their gaps with Delta, the most germane answer to why Delta appears to enjoy a structural advantage for profitability is simply a function of where the airline flies.
  — Justin Bachman, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2017
• But at this point, the most germane and crucial happenings in the Hub of Hardball in 2019 aren’t going to take place on the field during the season.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• As recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere show, questions about postwar responsibilities are increasingly germane, and murky.
  — Karen J. Coates, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
• Danielle Weston, a board member who also expressed skepticism about Azaiez from the beginning, told Fox News board members would allow non-germane comments at the many school board meetings.
  — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2022
• The dungeon fantasia is a conjuring of tall flickering votives, piped-in monk-ish chanting and — most germane — an exhaustive mélange of torture devices, often paired with mannequins contorted in extreme distress, to really tie the rooms together.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
• The press material for this film contains some notes made by the Dardenne brothers during the shooting. Such material is usually disposable, but these notes are germane..
  — Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic, 3 Feb. 2003

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