How to Use vanishingly in a Sentence

vanishingly

adverb
  • That makes for a tight race for a vanishingly small portion of roles.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • But at the same time, achievements of this ilk are vanishingly rare.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There’s even a vanishingly small chance that the incoming space rock could strike the moon.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Good news, these past four years, has been vanishingly sparse, like a handful of lilies in a fallow field.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Such a state’s chances of peace would be vanishingly small, however.
    — Natan Sachs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
  • This is vanishingly small, even in a world where re-entries are numbered in the hundreds per year.
    — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The chances for a ceasefire seemed vanishingly small after many false dawns in recent months.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Voter fraud is vanishingly small, less than your chance of being struck by lightning.
    — Caitlin Rublee and René Settle-Robinson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2020
  • And old growth already is vanishingly rare in the province — and going fast.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The list of rap artists who have stayed at the top of their game into the second half of their forties is vanishingly short.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The structures etched on these microchips are vanishingly small.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • And 30-plus year old bourbons are vanishingly rare.
    — Tony Sachs, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The chances that Cannizzaro would do so seemed vanishingly small.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • Of course, the likelihood of one person winning it all is vanishingly small.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Without retweets and shares, such stories will reach a vanishingly small number of readers.
    — Nathaniel Zelinsky, Vox, 14 July 2018
  • In contrast to the climate crisis, vanishingly few people think the child care crisis is a hoax.
    — Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The number of people that are likely to be affected by this is vanishingly small.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The other was captured in February of this year, and the amount of sea ice is vanishingly small.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There are vanishingly few places anywhere in the country to transfer patients.
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
  • There’s no need to take cover later today – the odds of an asteroid strike are vanishingly small.
    — Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 15 May 2018
  • But high school and college math — even a lot of graduate school math — is a vanishingly small part of the overall knowledge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Tungsten meanwhile comes from a vanishingly small number of mines, many of which are in China.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Roundabouts were vanishingly rare in the United States back then.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • And the chances of getting two identical molecules in this way are vanishingly small.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The odds of dealing with both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time seem vanishingly rare.
    — David Cox, WIRED, 9 May 2024
  • But the chance of Trump winning the popular vote outright is vanishingly small.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2020
  • For a country this big, the world's biggest, in fact, only a vanishingly small group know what is really going on.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN, 9 May 2017
  • So long as the age of antiheroes dominates in real life, the need for them on television is vanishingly small.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • These stories are noteworthy because the odds of being in precisely the wrong place at the wrong time are vanishingly slim.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The effect for stellar-mass black holes is vanishingly small but actually gets larger for less massive black holes.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026

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