How to Use insignificant in a Sentence

insignificant

adjective
  • Looking up at the stars always makes me feel so small and insignificant.
  • They lost an insignificant amount of money.
  • These problems are not insignificant.
  • That was insignificant to many people, but not to those who bet on the game.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That's not insignificant since this will beis the 55th title game.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Our jobs were much harder, not nearly as fun and some days felt, frankly, something just above insignificant.
    Chris Carr, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • And thus, with some not-insignificant face cracks, Rosé and Denali are safe once again.
    Paul McCallion, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The money that Stewart has received from these companies is not insignificant.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Peskov, however, dismissed the turnout as insignificant.
    Fox News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • For those who have at one time or another splurged at one of Onodera’s establishments, this statement is not insignificant.
    Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Still, a number of rally attendees largely dismissed it as insignificant.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Like the mouse that sank the boat, just one seemingly insignificant shift at the right time can finally push a system beyond the parameters that maintain it.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
  • But in space's low-gravity environment, all of those barriers are insignificant.
    Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Reedy figured that Bush was too small to generate a lot interest among the financial-services firms that handle bond sales because the fees involved would be too insignificant.
    Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • This little moment may seem insignificant at the time — most people remember getting lost in a Target or a grocery store as a kid — but this moment sticks with Tully for the rest of her life.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024
  • And the amount of deaths in children is not insignificant.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 31 July 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the rally from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to win was insignificant.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • On the one hand, the investments in the budget are not insignificant.
    Mary Kay Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The details are not insignificant, and the journey is not an easy one.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • And even the more insignificant like Dwayne Haskins and Luke Falk.
    Dan Kadar, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Then there is the allure of the not insignificant anonymity of a largely TMZ-free zone.
    Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The loss of Al-Shaair, who started 22 games the past two seasons, is not insignificant.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The Rangers may have been outshot, but the two teams combined for an insignificant 51 shots.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Some not-so-insignificant hurdles have been cleared in the process.
    Brian Peccarelli, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • None of these costs are insignificant, and they're all reflected at the pump.
    Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 10 July 2022
  • In other words, Lorde wrote this song while in some kind of non-insignificant pain.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 11 June 2021
  • Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To make this quite clear: There is a not-so-insignificant risk of a government shut down right now.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • That is an insignificant proportion of the overall sum that will be allocated.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

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