How to Use unimportant in a Sentence

unimportant

adjective
  • Those who don’t like the Olympics, shrug it off as unimportant.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2021
  • The name on the back of the jersey is unimportant — the team name on the front is.
    — By Susan Vollenweider, kansascity, 28 June 2017
  • Rules were in fact so unimportant that teams weren’t even playing with ping pong balls.
    — Harry Levin, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The piece is what you’re taught in school to disavow you of the idea that art is unimportant.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
  • And all the things that happened in the real world felt unimportant for a time.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The fate of innocent birds might seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
  • What was the smallest, most unimportant trade the league has ever seen?
    — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Choose your battles — and try to keep quiet about unimportant things.
    — Laurie Yarnell, Good Housekeeping, 3 Mar. 2021
  • And here’s this guy who cares deeply about something that to her seems unimportant, music.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This is a very boring and unimportant day in a string of similar ones.
    — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • This is not to say that the character strengths at the bottom of the list are unimportant.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • Short ranges and low top speed were unimportant for a milk round but near-silent running meant customers could sleep.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Were these items unimportant to their owners, who used them only as a bookmark?
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Few would argue that the deficit and debt are unimportant to our economy’s health.
    — Julie Heath, Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2018
  • This might sound like Sondheim is saying that the singing is unimportant.
    — Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Starting on this note reduces the chances that your soon-to-be ex will feel dismissed or unimportant.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the races are heart-stopping, while others feel weightless and unimportant.
    — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This is not to say that the context in which statistics is applied is unimportant.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • When the shape or style of your cube is unimportant, look for high-capacity ice cube trays that hold a dozen cubes or more.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.
    — Adam Chandler, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • So don’t be constantly absorbed in your phone, for one, which can make others feel unimportant.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The fate of either business is unimportant to the fate of the larger open source paradigm.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The school that an agent graduated from is unimportant, Thomas said.
    — Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • Those will be underlying, unimportant issues for much of the year.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The milestone — unimportant, of course, in the grand scheme of things — serves as a minor morale boost amid the doldrums of winter.
    — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Here are some of the pettiest, most unimportant frustrations so far.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That doesn’t mean expertise is unimportant.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The other thing to remember in order to avoid writer’s block is the fact that money is unimportant.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The women trapped in these jobs were seen as unimportant, and the work was erroneously believed to be simple.
    — Marie Hicks, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018

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