How to Use infinitesimal in a Sentence

infinitesimal

adjective
  • Your chances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time are infinitesimal.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2017
  • But there are a bunch of swing states in which statewide margins can be infinitesimal.
    — Pamela Karlan, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Its case would have an infinitesimal chance of even being heard.
    — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Ashour’s strokes speed up the game, giving him an infinitesimal edge.
    — James Zug, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The chances of that are infinitesimal, he’s told.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The most infinitesimal bit of matter has a span.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The most infinitesimal bit of matter has a span.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But both sides of the debate agree the odds of this happening are infinitesimal.
    — Dylan Walsh, The Atlantic, 2 May 2017
  • The former is an infinitesimal unit of time.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Fishing rights, which amounts to an infinitesimal sliver of trade between the neighbors, is the last big holdup.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The culprit is the infinitesimal wires that create circuits on the chips.
    — Erin Blakemore, The Week, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Still, by the five-year mark, the fish had almost died off in the lake — near-extinction of a species due to an infinitesimal amount of a hormone.
    — Rachael Moeller Gorman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2012
  • The odds of them dying in a crash were infinitesimal even before the model’s safety overhaul.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Even this little spot on this little planet in a galaxy that is but an infinitesimal speck in a universe, humans are wise to know their place.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
  • The margin for error is infinitesimal and getting slimmer by the day.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • There was hugely more of it and less of me, rendered infinitesimal in the presence of this immensity.
    — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • No notion in physics may be more mind bending than a black hole, an infinitesimal pit in spacetime whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Over the course of decades, people inevitably evolve in both infinitesimal and significant ways.
    — Patricia Neligan, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • While brutal for Bonfire’s early holders, infinitesimal prices are part of the appeal for many hype coin fans.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Your chance is now 25 out of 292 million, which is still, sorry to say, infinitesimal.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2025
  • What, one inquisitor asked, was the wavelength of the dim light, calculated in the infinitesimal unit of measurement known as angstroms?
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • Because, through most of this review period, where an infinitesimal fraction of the launch player base has access to the game, those parking spots have not been filled.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • The world order is completely imperiled by Russia, we are told, but at the same time, the risks to confronting this threat are infinitesimal.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
  • And again, the risk of getting the virus is way more deadly, way more scary than the minimal, infinitesimal risks that are associated with the vaccine.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For the masses of aspiring players, whose chances of succeeding are infinitesimal, the costs are human and in many cases quite brutal.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 14 June 2018
  • While certainly helpful, those things are infinitesimal in the long run, argues Barker.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In actual fact, the focus is infinitesimal and therefore impossible to find in the real world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2016
  • Since such craft have no more than an infinitesimal chance of being found, radio broadcasts from Earth, travelling at the speed of light, are more likely to make contact.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Haas is not asking listeners to detect those infinitesimal differences between, say, one C-sharp and the next.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • To precisely print transistors at these infinitesimal scales, light with an incredibly short wavelength must be used.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026

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