How to Use benign in a Sentence

benign

adjective

• We were happy to hear that the tumor was benign.
• There is no benign male version of tomboy.
  — Adam Stanaland, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
• The lump turned out to be a benign cyst, not cancer.
  — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
• Pills, on the other hand, seem much more benign.
  — Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
• More benign footage has been removed from the video, as well.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 July 2023
• In the main, the feedback was benign.
  — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
• Odds are the lump is benign, and your guy may not need to address it at all.
  — Jenna Birch, Health.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The benign terra cotta heads were deemed by some to be racist.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Weiss says eight out of ten lumps are benign, or non-cancerous.
  — Anisa Arsenault, Health, 24 Oct. 2025
• Sulin, in turn, assured her daughter that the growth was benign.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• But as with many things in life, a benign trend gone too far can become a problem.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• Against the odds, the pathology came back benign.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• The tumor was benign and had meningioma.
  — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 9 May 2026
• The only type of benign tumor that had more than one case was meningioma.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
• The intent might be as benign as the creative use of language.
  — Robert Myers, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2019
• The threat turned out to be benign, but the panic of lockdown was real.
  — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
• The idea that pot is benign, or only an issue within a unit, is not true.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• But the most dispiriting sounds of all are often the most benign.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2022
• In the moment, that Marisnick did not catch the ball was benign.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• But there has never been evidence that such a benign group was present at the march.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• Like a benign tumor, this wealth can exist within a healthy body for a long time.
  — Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• The root causes of today’s low rates of price growth might be mostly benign.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 15 June 2017
• Some of the pictures are as benign as a day at the beach, but others smack of danger.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
• Uterine fibroids are benign tumors that grow in and around the uterus.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• Most of us like to think of ourselves as benign, decent, nice people.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• These benign small and firm white bumps appear on the face—usually around the eyes.
  — Carley Millhone, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
• Will longer-term Treasury yields stay in their benign range as all this unfolds?
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
• Just this warm and benign, outsize presence, like an uncle, on the set.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
• But what had once been raucous and raunchy mischief, was now benign horseplay.
  — Time, 30 Oct. 2025
• Fossils are the devil’s trick; some benign deity sneezed to make the world.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025