How to Use germane in a Sentence

germane

adjective
  • No matter, none of this is germane to most of the stocks in our portfolio.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Apply your spare time to studying a subject that is germane to your career.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The Senate ruled the additions to the bill were not germane.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Those day-to-day issues are not just germane to Blacks, but everyone, Lewis said.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Maybe not in the strict sense of everything being entirely germane to the core story.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That’s because these questions are more germane than candidate support in an election so far off.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • All of this seems more germane to the Voting Rights Act arguments.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 May 2016
  • Whether there are good uses for the currencies isn’t really germane, and there don’t appear to be, at least not yet.
    — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Nothing that is not germane to his work as a consulting detective is allowed to clutter up his mind.
    — Simon Callow, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • But prosecutors can counter that the past misconduct is not germane to the specific case being tried.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • He was mystified that the foundation would keep information from judges that is germane to their duties as voters.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Her expertise has certainly been germane.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Republicans can challenge amendments as not being germane or not being budgetary in nature.
    — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
  • House members said this bill would fix the sunset issues, despite Patrick’s earlier claims that an amendment on the bill wasn’t germane and wouldn’t fix the problem.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram.com, 28 May 2017
  • Or perhaps his anti-Trump, pro-Clinton sentiments were not germane to his mere copy editing or his reliance on a thesaurus.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
  • These concepts are germane to both the current black political and media moment, as well as in figuring out just what to think about Parker.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2016
  • Byrne said that any call for gun control would require careful scrutiny to see if proposals were germane to the situation and legally viable.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • If a good portion of Siri’s functionality isn’t even germane to the desktop experience, why even deliver a port?
    — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
  • Beaverton police ask anyone who might have information that might be germane to the homicide investigation to contact Det.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Why did Mark Zuckerberg not disclose him to Congress, especially when that would have been extremely germane to the subject of the hearing?
    — David Carroll, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • But at this point, the most germane and crucial happenings in the Hub of Hardball in 2019 aren’t going to take place on the field during the season.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • We’ve been forced to guess about a succession plan, especially with Pegula refusing to grant interviews or provide any germane insight.
    — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • But speaking softly is particularly germane when aggression arises out of weakness, since harsh rhetoric can needlessly provoke leaders who already have their backs against the wall.
    — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
  • But sensitive, fluent editing keeps these excursions germane to Matlin’s story, making this more than just a tribute to one bright, interesting woman.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Walker asked Gaskill how the amendment is germane to the underlying bill, which establishes rules for when election officials can scan early voting ballots.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That may be a textbook example of interjecting non-germane material into the classroom to indulge one’s political views.
    — Jonathan Marks, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Because some recent winters have been wet and California’s big reservoirs are fuller than average, prophesies of a dry year ahead are not as worrisome, though the question of snow remains germane.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Attendees actively engaged in the exchange of perspectives and experiences germane to their respective spheres of influence.
    — Gorgeous Beauty, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The insight of the movie - delivered amid a torrent of half-germane, half-gratuitous raunch - is that lust, dissatisfaction and restlessness have a way of manifesting themselves at every age and stage of life.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2017
  • The British government and the germane government, the two antagonists in the war at that point, were both engaged in propaganda campaigns in the United States.
    — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024

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