How to Use unimportant in a Sentence

unimportant

adjective
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  • That doesn’t mean, of course, that the draft is unimportant.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
  • Those who don’t like the Olympics, shrug it off as unimportant.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2021
  • And all the things that happened in the real world felt unimportant for a time.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • This is not to say that the character strengths at the bottom of the list are unimportant.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • 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
  • Rules were in fact so unimportant that teams weren’t even playing with ping pong balls.
    — Harry Levin, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Ohtani’s first hit of the season was unimportant in the context of the game, the grounder that skipped by a diving Tony Kemp failing to lead to any runs.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This might sound like Sondheim is saying that the singing is unimportant.
    — Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And here’s this guy who cares deeply about something that to her seems unimportant, music.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • An unimportant point, as the piece was a surprise delight.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The fate of either business is unimportant to the fate of the larger open source paradigm.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Some of the races are heart-stopping, while others feel weightless and unimportant.
    — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Whether Jones would get the half-sack needed to claim the bonus was one of the few storylines worth watching in a mostly unimportant game.
    — Dan Greenspan, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Choose your battles — and try to keep quiet about unimportant things.
    — Laurie Yarnell, Good Housekeeping, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The feeling of being, just for a moment, at the very center of the most important unimportant thing.
    — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean Saban’s call was unimportant, though.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Were these items unimportant to their owners, who used them only as a bookmark?
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022
  • But a 27-6 La Salle halftime lead made what would be Catania''s first of three touchdowns seem unimportant.
    — Jeremiah Kirven, Cincinnati.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The school that an agent graduated from is unimportant, Thomas said.
    — Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • Where the treasure came from was so unimportant to the early modern mind that most trials against treasure hunters don’t even ask the question.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
  • None of that is to say wider economic judgments are unimportant.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Many things that are important in life seem to be ignored in favor of unimportant and fleeting things.
    — Magnus Johnson, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But this isn’t to say these traits were unimportant; the authors note that all 11 character traits carried weight in their model.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • There have been a series of variants that have caused initial alarm, only to prove largely unimportant in the course of the pandemic.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Brasier is set to throw again Thursday in Worcester, but any timetable for a return was unimportant to Cora.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • By now, knowing the basic plotline of a Guardians of the Galaxy gathering is unimportant.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The battle that followed was a one-sided affair, so unimportant that nobody bothered to give it a name.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And it’s filled with the terribly unimportant, because email addresses are easy to access and email is free.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 22 Dec. 2019
  • But that doesn’t mean that this traditional measure of the public mood is unimportant.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • His win-loss record, from their perspective, was unimportant.
    — Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2023

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