immaterial

in a sentence

That is immaterial!  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of Atticus's questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells' home life.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

"What I think is immaterial," Langdon said.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Truths like those can be both 'objective' and 'general,' but they are nevertheless totally immaterial to each man's existence.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

There are sicknesses that walk in darkness; and there are exterminating angels, that fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see, but we feel their force, and sink under their sword.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels, 2011

It really was immaterial whether it was Miss Kenton or a complete stranger who had walked in at that moment.  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989

There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture post cards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.†  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

"It's immaterial to me," she said.  (source) J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951

I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.†  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

Kemmerich will die; it is immaterial who gets them.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

where he saith, it shall be said to the wicked in the last day, "Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels:" which place is manifest for the permanence of Evill Angels, (unlesse wee might think the name of Devill and his Angels may be understood of the Churches Adversaries and their Ministers;) but then it is repugnant to their Immateriality; because Everlasting fire is no punishment to impatible substances, such as are all things Incorporeall.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

"Of course, it's immaterial to me," she said.  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections of whatever was gravest in her subsequent life; one picture precisely as vivid as another; as if all were of similar importance, or all alike a play.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850