How to Use insignificance in a Sentence

insignificance

noun
  • To emphasize the vastness of wealth and the insignificance of those who serve in it.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 July 2024
  • That means traits are not steadily diluted to the point of insignificance.
    — Richard Conniff, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
  • And the phrase — the command, in a way — dissolves into insignificance.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Many feel that the insignificance of this amount may not act as a meaningful deterrent in future.
    — Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The two shows share plots of frenzy amid insignificance, and both abound with florid insults, rapid-fire banter, and acid appraisals.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2024
  • But once people's confidence in their own skills was used to adjust the outcome, the wage gap shrank to insignificance.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • All these weird omissions and errors pale into insignificance compared to the total absence of text in the movie.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • And, for most of us, learning how to be happy actually means coming to terms with our own insignificance.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The city’s sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
    — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Daughters and sons should call home in gratitude for the relative insignificance of their own parents’ sins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • All of which fades into insignificance the instant you're confronted with bad roads or rotten weather.
    — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Wars fought in the shadow of nuclear clouds would make past sacrifices pale into insignificance.
    — Robert H. Scales, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • But the film makes its own insignificance a virtue, then uses that to slip us into an unexpectedly moving story.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But the film makes its own insignificance a virtue, then uses that to slip us into an unexpectedly moving story.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Strange phenomena call our attention to the sprawling nature of time and our own insignificance.
    — Michael Friedrich, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • The purpose of the lesson is not necessarily a cold insignificance.
    — Avery Ellfeldt, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The author draws us into the journey, as Rachel leaves behind not only a world of sugar cane fields and savage dogs, but also her own insignificance.
    — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Nazi subplot, central to Kaplan's book, also melts away into insignificance here.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2018
  • There is something beautiful about recognizing the person you were meant to be, and the insignificance of things some put so much significance in.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 May 2018
  • The British troupe’s sketches include gluttony, birth control and total insignificance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • By the 1970s, populations of large whales had dwindled to insignificance.
    — Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Their bitcoin profits pale into insignificance compared with the riches bestowed on Michael Poutre, at least on paper.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • If the improvement happens and the Ducks go toe-to-toe with Ohio State, this week’s bumbles and stumbles will fade into insignificance.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2021
  • To act at all today—in relation to communities, in relation to the climate—requires an embrace of one’s own insignificance in the larger scheme of things.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But the best representation of how misleading this spin about the insignificance of a final CBO score was?
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
  • There is escapist entertainment, the value of which lies precisely in its ultimate insignificance, serving as a kind of release valve for the pressure of our day-to-day lives.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Manager David Moyes may be kicking himself for starting Collins in this match, with its insignificance to their hardships in the league campaign.
    — SI.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The other — the assumption of insignificance, of being swept into greater momentum — is pragmatic, from someone born in the East.
    — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Which brings us to the significance – or insignificance – of Sunday’s game against the Washington Redskins.
    — Paul Domowitch, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017

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