How to Use negligible in a Sentence

negligible

adjective
  • A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle.
  • The price difference was negligible.
  • But the dolphins are not so small as to be a negligible threat to a killer whale.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • George will rotate once even though the length around the seed is negligible.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2022
  • So in the short term, the effect would be negligible.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In between, though, there was a non-negligible amount of chaos.
    — Jia Tolentino, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The team still has to fill out their roster, so the savings may be negligible.
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Brands take up negligible headspace in people’s busy lives.
    — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The impact cannot be measured and could have been negligible.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
  • The brothers, who were paid negligible wages for their work, couldn’t afford the fee.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In few other works in the canon are all of the characters but one so negligible.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • To the untrained eye, this is a small, almost negligible, jump.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The Treasury has so far said the deal will have a negligible net impact.
    — William Horobin and Christopher Condon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
  • No one can say for sure, but the program’s impact is likely to be negligible.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • And the second season reaches the heights of the first, with a negligible bump here or there.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The wind can go from negligible to middling to mighty on the Old Course.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • But all the rest of the noise surrounding the network may be negligible.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Jupiter, for instance, pulls on Earth but is so far away that the effect is negligible.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Impacts on air travel have been negligible so far.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Impacts on air travel have been negligible so far.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There were no famous people, and crime was negligible.
    — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The direct impact of the bills on the course of the conflict is likely to be negligible.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The rates of screening right now under the age of 50 are negligible.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 May 2018
  • The groups also insist that fume events are rare, and that the level of toxins is so low as to be negligible.
    — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Ovadia points to a 2019 study which states that the risk is negligible.
    — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The costs of living increase in all parts of the world, but the fees one receives remain negligible.
    — Ho Tzu Nyen, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
  • If the time difference between routes is negligible, the app defaults to the one that saves gas.
    — Jacob Sweet, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Yes, but in the 12-team playoff world, the impact may be negligible.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The cost savings for hotels and car rentals are negligible, anyway.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

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