How to Use minuscule in a Sentence

minuscule

adjective
  • Whether someone gives him an award or not is kind of a minuscule thing.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026
  • His sack rate over the past two games is a minuscule 3 percent.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The stage was minuscule compared with most rinks.
    — Bob Morris, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • All the same, these are minuscule sample sizes.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Oh, gosh, the odds of making any money on this song are so minuscule.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2023
  • But, that didn’t stop me from trying, in ways both minuscule and defining.
    — Time, 7 June 2023
  • The minuscule nib has a teardrop shape for artful sculpting and stealthy shading.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • As that ice particle falls, more and more minuscule bits of water vapor freezes to it.
    — Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
  • While those who try to iron out every single minuscule detail may never act.
    — Joel Keylor, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Hickey glanced at her daughter’s trove, then at the store’s dense, minuscule universe.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The margin between winning and losing, even among the best and worst, can be minuscule.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The odds of the Blazers not finishing with the fifth-worst record are minuscule.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Despite minuscule profits, child care businesses are not cheap to get off the ground.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
  • His minuscule walk rate (3 percent) reflects as such.
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Miller, bald except for a minuscule friar’s ring of fuzz, won in a split decision.
    — Matt Moret, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Wilson is there, a minuscule figure on the deck of the destroyer.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Right above her wrist, on the left side of her left hand, is a truly minuscule new tattoo of the sweetest little bow.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The community may be minuscule, but the night sky views are massive.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This minuscule amphibian is only about a third of an inch long and can fit comfortably on a dime with room to spare.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The length of a day also fluctuates by a minuscule amount from month to month, season to season, and year to year.
    — Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • With modern shifts, the gap between a second baseman and a right fielder is minuscule.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
  • In the grand scheme of things, that’s still minuscule — equivalent to taking about 22 cars off the road for a year.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 May 2023
  • Even if such minuscule PBHs were created, most of them might be gone by now.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
  • For people elsewhere, the chances of being hit were minuscule, although not quite zero.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The eggs, which are minuscule, overwinter and hatch in spring when temperatures warm up.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
  • Interest rates were in the double digits then and are minuscule today.
    — Edwin T. Burton, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But years had turned to a decade, Tunisians’ budgets had gone from modest to minuscule, and now nobody was giving.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The cost of transgender care is minuscule when compared to the overall size of the defense budget.
    — Svetlana Shkolnikova Stars and Stripes (tns), al, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Philippines buys only a minuscule amount of oil from Russia.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2022
  • Your chances of winning are minuscule — about 1 in 292 million.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022

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