Examples of tangential in a Sentence

Their romance is tangential to the book's main plot.

Recent Examples on the Web The Alfa Bank allegations and the Steele dossier were largely tangential to the official investigation into whether there was collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. — New York Times, 15 May 2022 This whole argument is a bit tangential to the book’s focus of why robots should prevail in space, at least for the time being. — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 Critics, including some moderate Democrats as well as Republicans, are right to argue that Biden is implementing a substantive policy change with only tangential connection to public health. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Apr. 2022 Late-night television has used Ukraine for familiar or tangential punch lines — Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump or the quality of Papa John’s pizza. — David Bauder, ajc, 29 Mar. 2022 That pretrial dispute -- and a tangential one, centered on how the Justice Department went about investigating the counsel Bannon received -- will be argued Wednesday before a federal judge in DC. — Tierney Sneed And Sara Murray, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022 Lisa, this was kind of a sleazy, tangential effort to. — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 15 Mar. 2022 In terms of Trump, my feeling was after investigating it, his relationship to Trump was so tangential and really not important in his life to him. — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022 Extra sessions spent on tangential aspects of athleticism—the kind of flexibility work and strength training that built long-lasting athletes from Cristiano Ronaldo to Novak Djokovic—were mere distractions to van der Poel. — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2022 See More

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