How to Use triviality in a Sentence

triviality

noun
  • We shouldn't spend time on such trivialities.
  • That’s where the triviality of these gestures is also a weapon.
    — Moira Donegan, The Cut, 7 June 2018
  • The best way to avoid Parkinson’s law of triviality is to get the agenda right.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The higher-cause defense can seem glaringly at odds with the triviality of so much of the work.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • This election has to be won on the battlefield of triviality, too.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Oct. 2012
  • Any piece of art begins in triviality.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This wad of bubblegum draws attention to its triviality from the top, then never does anything to fix it.
    — Charles Bramesco, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Warhol wasn’t the first to sense how modern life, as represented in the news media, teetered always on the verge of triviality.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Carved out cuteness The short length might also play into that cheerful triviality.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2018
  • All the more reason for those under this sign to embrace the softness and triviality of floral prints right before spring arrives.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Our first instinct was to fill that vacuum with distractions and triviality.
    — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • An elevating writer’s room can strike a blow against triviality.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
  • When squabbles do arise, often over the merest triviality, they are usually settled by gestures and loud protest.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • But in some ways, its sheer triviality speaks volumes about Kavanaugh’s character.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Most of us [think] that there’s real work and everything else is self-indulgence or distraction or triviality.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Dessert sounds like such a triviality when confronted by all the challenges of deep space, from keeping humans alive to repairing spacecraft.
    — Mika McKinnon, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The opportunity to investigate that with the body cam footage and see the triviality of the conflict.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Back at home, those decisions seemed insurmountable because I was hung up on the little trivialities of my life.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Who was this irritant who had eluded the most sophisticated lawmen in the country, thanks to the triviality of his crimes?
    — David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s campaigns often turn on trivialities and are painless or even profitable for their promoters.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, there’s the inescapable triviality that Hamilton really was a freakin’ genius!
    — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Society has rationalized the human into triviality, and we’re stuck in a bad game.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • When civilization is at stake, nostalgia over television sure feels like a triviality.
    — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The last meaningless triviality of the patriarchy—that jewelry is a luxury to be enjoyed by women but bought only by men—was dead.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Vanities, 25 Jan. 2017
  • They are considered too strong to be hurt by such trivialities as heartbreak, too smart to chase a partner, too aggressive to care about the loss of a friend or too angry to crave a happy ending.
    — Crystal Andrews, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Fast object detection is no longer confined to the smiling trivialities of digital cameras.
    — Jose Fermoso, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2008
  • In the film, Claude Lanzmann cannot reconcile the triviality of the paper and its deadly consequences.
    — Elisabeth Åsbrink, Time, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The conversation drifted around trivialities like the weather or how longbefore some road construction would be complete.
    — Anne-Marie Yerks, Country Living, 3 Sep. 2015
  • Washington is also punching that panic button after three straight losses that has the team teetering on triviality just like the Broncos are.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Another consistency across all of these cryptocurrencies is the triviality of time.
    — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 15 June 2021

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