How to Use negligible in a Sentence

negligible

adjective
Definition of negligiblenext
Synonyms for negligiblenext
  • A negligible amount of damage was done to the vehicle.
  • The price difference was negligible.
  • And the second season reaches the heights of the first, with a negligible bump here or there.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In terms of the impact on the business, so far, it’s been negligible.
    — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Ovadia points to a 2019 study which states that the risk is negligible.
    — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • George will rotate once even though the length around the seed is negligible.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • The brothers, who were paid negligible wages for their work, couldn’t afford the fee.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Yes, but in the 12-team playoff world, the impact may be negligible.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In few other works in the canon are all of the characters but one so negligible.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The 49ers hope the drop-off from Mack is negligible or nonexistent.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
  • If the time difference between routes is negligible, the app defaults to the one that saves gas.
    — Jacob Sweet, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The degree to which the new rules will affect the last-place Red Sox is probably negligible.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • And at some of the busiest airports, the wait times have had negligible increases or even decreased.
    — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That’s thanks in large part to the negligible price of solar and wind power, which was cratering even back in 2022.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Overall, tasters thought these issues were negligible, and the 365 tortillas placed solidly in the middle of the pack.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The torque injection more than makes up for the negligible horsepower drop; this Polestar 2 feels just as zippy as the old one.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, in this example, the difference in the passing of time is negligible.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • While the program has few overall downsides, the risks that do exist are not negligible.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Sports cars are useful image builders, but their contribution to the bottom line is—at least in the case of GM—negligible.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This process isn’t as fast as covering the right cup on the Sony headphones, but the one-second time difference is negligible.
    — Dan Roe, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Because the plant operates on a small scale compared to the planet, the amount of carbon removed is negligible.
    — USA Today, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Oregon has been voting by mail since the late ’90s with negligible issues.
    — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And while the vast majority of those hits caused negligible damage, one strike in May 2022 did damage the telescope.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • By 2020, Trump had boosted his numbers with Black, Latino and Asian voters in small but not at all negligible ways.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the song collects 31 million streams and negligible amount in sales which yields a No. 14 launch on Global Excl.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In sports like shooting and archery, the difference between men and women is negligible at best.
    — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Even if all 12 of his passes were incomplete, that would have been negligible.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The front-line stats may not have been pretty and the signing bonus was negligible, but Moreno also struck out just five times in 135 plate appearances that summer.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Nvidia said the ban could cause a $400 million hit to its current-quarter revenues, while AMD said any losses would be negligible.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022

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