How to Use immaterial in a Sentence

immaterial

adjective
  • The fact that she is a woman is immaterial and irrelevant.
  • Whether or not he intended to cause problems is immaterial.
  • The details about how and why the band broke up are immaterial at this point.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2021
  • That the recipe reads like the product of a dare is immaterial.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Race is not immaterial to the loss of prestige that critics have faced.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • To the religious, soul is your immaterial essence, your life force, so to speak.
    — Shakeil Greeley, GQ, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Whether the left turn driver is in the right is somewhat immaterial.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The half-life of immaterial radiation for most of the waste is around five years.
    — William Levin, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
  • How the rank-and-file voters ranked the entries was immaterial.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2021
  • If strict fidelity gets in the way, it can be treated as immaterial.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Whether Dolphin was involved with any of these boys or not was immaterial.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 26 Sep. 2018
  • But he had been troubled by how the immaterial mind could be joined to a material body.
    — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022
  • This does not mean that a driver’s performance on the road is immaterial.
    — The Economist, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Whether his name is cleared, Jud resolves, is immaterial.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The fact Mahomes got hurt is immaterial to the fact the Chiefs were always bound to fall.
    — Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the state of the economy proved immaterial on election night.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Whether a decision was made by Roberts or the front office will be immaterial.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Whether those producing for us are located across the street or on the other side of the world is immaterial.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In the end, said many of the women who spoke to The Times, the goal is for gender to be immaterial.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Whether that says more about the Ducks or the Beavers really is immaterial.
    — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 May 2022
  • The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
  • The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 20 June 2026
  • That it’s named after one of the most dangerous animals in the world is immaterial.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That it’s named after one of the most dangerous animals in the world is immaterial.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024
  • With respect to the last exception, the amounts are immaterial.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 12 May 2017
  • To a threat actor working to break into and move through a network, the form and function of an asset is immaterial.
    — Jim Hyman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But Stewart’s performance makes those things immaterial and the rest of the movie seem all the finer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The fact that the video leaked the day before the extension deadline was immaterial since the team knew about the incident.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019

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