How to Use insignificance in a Sentence

insignificance

noun
  • To emphasize the vastness of wealth and the insignificance of those who serve in it.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 July 2024
  • And the phrase — the command, in a way — dissolves into insignificance.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • That means traits are not steadily diluted to the point of insignificance.
    — Richard Conniff, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
  • But once people's confidence in their own skills was used to adjust the outcome, the wage gap shrank to insignificance.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • All these weird omissions and errors pale into insignificance compared to the total absence of text in the movie.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • All these weird omissions and errors pale into insignificance compared to the total absence of text in the movie.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • If the improvement happens and the Ducks go toe-to-toe with Ohio State, this week’s bumbles and stumbles will fade into insignificance.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Many feel that the insignificance of this amount may not act as a meaningful deterrent in future.
    — Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • All of Salah's awards will pale into insignificance compared to the Champions League, which Liverpool could win for the first time since 2005.
    — SI.com, 13 May 2018
  • And, for most of us, learning how to be happy actually means coming to terms with our own insignificance.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But the best representation of how misleading this spin about the insignificance of a final CBO score was?
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
  • Daughters and sons should call home in gratitude for the relative insignificance of their own parents’ sins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Daughters and sons should call home in gratitude for the relative insignificance of their own parents’ sins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The city’s sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
    — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Manager David Moyes may be kicking himself for starting Collins in this match, with its insignificance to their hardships in the league campaign.
    — SI.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The author draws us into the journey, as Rachel leaves behind not only a world of sugar cane fields and savage dogs, but also her own insignificance.
    — Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Reminded of my human insignificance, the fear melts away.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • By the 1970s, populations of large whales had dwindled to insignificance.
    — Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And that is why winning the FA Cup this season, for all its insignificance in the grand scheme of things, might represent a significant step forward for this youthful Spurs team.
    — SI.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • All of which fades into insignificance the instant you're confronted with bad roads or rotten weather.
    — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The show’s decision to end the series with someone who is not a Roy in name or blood as the CEO of the life-consuming corportate firm at the center of its drama is indicative of its insignificance.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 29 May 2023
  • Which brings us to the significance – or insignificance – of Sunday’s game against the Washington Redskins.
    — Paul Domowitch, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • There is something beautiful about recognizing the person you were meant to be, and the insignificance of things some put so much significance in.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 May 2018
  • There is something beautiful about recognizing the person you were meant to be, and the insignificance of things some put so much significance in.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 14 May 2018
  • The Nazi subplot, central to Kaplan's book, also melts away into insignificance here.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2018
  • The Nazi subplot, central to Kaplan's book, also melts away into insignificance here.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2018
  • Wars fought in the shadow of nuclear clouds would make past sacrifices pale into insignificance.
    — Robert H. Scales, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • The other — the assumption of insignificance, of being swept into greater momentum — is pragmatic, from someone born in the East.
    — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • But the film makes its own insignificance a virtue, then uses that to slip us into an unexpectedly moving story.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
  • To act at all today—in relation to communities, in relation to the climate—requires an embrace of one’s own insignificance in the larger scheme of things.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023

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