insignificance

Example Sentences

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Despite the pile-up of particulars, Metcalfe knows he must find the lost poem, that it is the keystone without which the story crumbles into insignificance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

It also makes the £235.4m net spend from the five years previous pale into insignificance.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

“In something like fifty seconds, I was quite certain I was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set world agog.”

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

Lazlo looked down at his feet, reluctant to explain his own insignificance.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor