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.
• Some of the blame for the marginal cooling ability of the A/C must go to the Samurai's convertible top.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
• Even small, marginal gains can have a big impact at scale.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Front-wheel drive Outlanders see a marginal improvement of 24 city and 31 mpg on the highway.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Jan. 2023
• Crew chief Ed Malloy said after the game that the contact between the players was marginal and no foul should have been called.
  — Brian Mahoney, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• The tornado threat is minimal in the marginal risk area.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2023
• The brief ceasefire brought only marginal calm to some parts of the capital, Khartoum.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
• These are not gag gifts … this is not marginal stoner humor.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• But in Alabama the raise has only been marginal, by 3%.
  — Stryens-Fernandes, al, 10 May 2023
• The images show chlorotic leaves with slightly green veins and some with marginal burning.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• In a 4-1 loss to the Rockies on Tuesday afternoon, Betts made only marginal gains.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• By piling another tax on top of that, Biden would risk sharply raising the top marginal tax rate for high earners.
  — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• No, any trade the Warriors could make ahead of the deadline is a play of faith — a marginal bet that whatever is coming in will prove better than what’s leaving.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• In total, 59 million people in 11 states will at least have a marginal risk of severe weather.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• In total, 59 million people in 11 states will have at least a marginal risk of severe weather.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• The North Slope offers a marginal place for a moose because far fewer willow shrubs grow there than in the boreal forest.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Has Ryan Poles done significant harm to the culture of the Bears by turning over the roster so rapidly and leaving the team with marginal players at best?
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• That is based on marginal rates and assuming that a large portion of Kotick's income may have been long term capital gain.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And many other marginal ideas can definitely do the same.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Apr. 2023
• Israelis are out for blood, and no credible Israeli leader will be able to call for a return to the status quo ante or just marginal gains against Hamas.
  — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• Even where the iPhone 14 Pro came out on top, the improvements were so marginal that I'm left wondering if Apple just overhyped its product.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Just remember that some more marginal areas may be best left for nature to plant, rather than being planted by you.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 1 Feb. 2023
• The anti-capitalist left, though, has been a relatively marginal force in the fight against climate change as long as there’s been one.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Trouble is, the discovery has only marginal effect on his loyalty to the Nazi regime.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• Groups embracing those tactics, though, have always been a marginal force in the climate movement.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• The denigrations-as-distraction are just more of the same marginal white noise that has always hovered around the pro-Palestine movement.
  — Talia Jane, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• On Wednesday the northwest corner of Alabama will have a Level 1 -- or marginal -- risk.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Moroccan team dropped to their knees in prayer, again, in the center of a new football stage where Islam was neither fringe nor marginal, deviant nor dangerous.
  — Khaled A. Beydoun, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• Red state tax cuts Many of the tax cuts will benefit the states' richest residents, with 12 of the 14 states reducing their top marginal rate, or the tax rate that impacts their highest earners.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024