How to Use marginal in a Sentence

marginal

adjective

• There has been only a marginal improvement in her condition.
• His reading and writing abilities are marginal.
• And just like in bike racing, no marginal gain was too small.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• The stock has made a marginal new high and has now traced out a pair of lower highs.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• The impact of that could be marginal, though.
  — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• The leaf with marginal necrosis has lost a lot of water and half of it is dead.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2020
• But races are long enough that this is a mostly marginal factor.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• But that’s still going to be marginal in terms of what happened.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• If the queen holds, there is a marginal improvement on this line.
  — Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• The few marginal players who agree to meet with you, hire other agents.
  — Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• There are things that, at first blush, might appear marginal but are in truth major.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Watch for the next marginal buyer.
  — Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Still the numbers will be marginal.
  — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
• Here are the unmarried, who used to be marginal.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 May 2026
• The marginal risk area has been pushed a bit southward in the latest update.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 1 June 2022
• The issue is always seen as a soft issue, or we're seen as marginal.
  — Ai-Jen Poo, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021
• In the overall scope of a season, his impact on the team was marginal at best.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
• The data is marginal, and these outpatient steps are a good way to start.
  — cleveland, 26 Apr. 2021
• The data is marginal, and these outpatient steps are a good way to start.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2021
• But so far such efforts on the Israeli scene have been marginal.
  — Raja Shehadeh, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• The Chloe accounts of the world are the marginal demand on top.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Studies there have showed a marginal increase in math and reading skills for some school grades.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The Jets haven’t come within sight of winning against some very marginal teams this year.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• Tavares called it a small or marginal piece of the automaker's business.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2022
• There will be a marginal risk — 1 on a scale of 5 — of severe weather in the metro.
  — Chris Shaffer, CBS News, 16 June 2026
• These are not marginal markets.
  — Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
• These are not marginal choices.
  — John W.h. Denton Ao, Fortune, 6 June 2026
• There have been, of course, but all too often they’re considered marginal.
  — Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• This is not a marginal sourcing market.
  — Assef Shaikh, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2026