How to Use negligible in a Sentence

negligible

adjective

• A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle.
• The price difference was negligible.
• The wind can go from negligible to middling to mighty on the Old Course.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• But the dolphins are not so small as to be a negligible threat to a killer whale.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• For the first few years, the use of AI writing tools on LinkedIn was negligible.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
• And the second season reaches the heights of the first, with a negligible bump here or there.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2022
• In terms of the impact on the business, so far, it’s been negligible.
  — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Ovadia points to a 2019 study which states that the risk is negligible.
  — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• George will rotate once even though the length around the seed is negligible.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• The direct impact of the bills on the course of the conflict is likely to be negligible.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• Teams have been scheming to limit Khalil Mack, and the rest of the pass rush has been negligible.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• The brothers, who were paid negligible wages for their work, couldn’t afford the fee.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
• Yes, but in the 12-team playoff world, the impact may be negligible.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Treasury has so far said the deal will have a negligible net impact.
  — William Horobin and Christopher Condon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• In few other works in the canon are all of the characters but one so negligible.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• But all the rest of the noise surrounding the network may be negligible.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, there is a low, but not negligible, risk to the north in New England.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
• The Spurs were called for 22 fouls to the Kings’ 16, but the free-throw disparity between the teams was negligible.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• The 49ers hope the drop-off from Mack is negligible or nonexistent.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
• In between, though, there was a non-negligible amount of chaos.
  — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
• And in the biggest games of the season, Tyree’s carries were negligible.
  — Tyler James, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2021
• The break-in period was negligible, and the boot felt good right from the start, with the exception of one spot above the ankle that took a day to wear in.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• If the time difference between routes is negligible, the app defaults to the one that saves gas.
  — Jacob Sweet, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
• But for decades, progress on the problem was negligible.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2025
• Jupiter, for instance, pulls on Earth but is so far away that the effect is negligible.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
• The degree to which the new rules will affect the last-place Red Sox is probably negligible.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• To the untrained eye, this is a small, almost negligible, jump.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2021
• There's the Total Sugar amount, which should be negligible.
  — Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2025
• WhatsApp’s ad load should be negligible to people who only use WhatsApp for messaging.
  — ArsTechnica, 16 June 2025