How to Use insofar as in a Sentence

insofar as

conjunction
  • The news is good insofar as it suggests that a solution may be possible.
  • Frankly, there’s a lot of sadness insofar as, that’s it.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Most of the story, insofar as there is one, is driven by her crises.
    — Rachelle Hampton, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The plot, insofar as there is one, centers on her struggle to cry on camera.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
  • What an auspicious start to a career in crosswords, insofar as there is such a thing.
    — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Yeah, insofar as now he's got all this money and is back in New York City.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • These pools are meant to lay flat against the lawn and are permanent insofar as they can’t be relocated.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2023
  • Hypothermia is a good way to go, insofar as there is any good way to go in an extreme situation.
    — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Culture only plays a role insofar as how those principles are applied.
    — Stephanie Judd, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Both are constricting insofar as he is either shaped or shaping himself.
    — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This city will never be the same, insofar as our sense of safety, our illusions of permanence and so on, are gone.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • State governments do that, or city governments insofar as the state permits.
    — Peter M. Sandman, STAT, 18 July 2021
  • All gone, only missed insofar as none of the characters feel like real people anymore.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
  • Yes, insofar as the process of seeking the peoples’ support has been allowed to continue.
    — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • On the other hand there is a contrast, insofar as absolute deprivation will not be the norm.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2013
  • Except that government can only spend insofar as the economy has already grown, or will grow.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Weight loss contributes to inadequate muscle mass insofar as muscle is lost along with fat.
    — Judith Graham, oregonlive, 19 July 2023
  • Finch is right, insofar as the uptick in physicality is risky, even dangerous, for the players.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
  • As nourishing as fruit, as precious as money, a poem acquires meaning only insofar as it is shared.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • But the phrase can and should be applied to the current Iran war, at least insofar as the United States is concerned.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And which religions are doing the best job in caring for youths with mental health challenges, insofar as that can be determined by the data?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The book's ending differs from the series, especially insofar as where all the characters' lives leave off.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • This suggests that cries of fake polling can be self-fulfilling, insofar as those who distrust pollsters are less likely to participate in polls.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This created a natural opportunity for a study insofar as some people could get their hands on the consoles and some could not.
    — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
  • One of my goals was to provide (insofar as is possible with an essay collection) an antidote to all the fear and xenophobia swirling around us.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 June 2026
  • That’s to your credit and, insofar as your errant old minister helped shape the moral sensibility of your church, just possibly to his.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • That is the only credible outcome insofar as we at the United Nations are concerned.
    — Sean Keane, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Or, to put it differently, insofar as hypocrisy points to an aspiration not met, the aspiration remains.
    — Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That means our conversation must be absolutely open, insofar as that’s possible.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This may be a case where natural selection is at work, insofar as the characters of the lineage have diverged from that which is typical in the ancestral forms.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011

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