Sample sentences for INCONSEQUENTIAL

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Definition

unimportant (not consequential)

inconsequential = not important

I'm spending a lot of time on it. Although the impact on my grade is inconsequential, I find the assignment fascinating.

inconsequential = not important

He recounted everything that he could recall, down to the minutest and most inconsequential observation, proud of the information that he had gathered.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

inconsequential = not important

I saw so clearly that I was inconsequential to her.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

inconsequential = not important

He never made me feel dismissed or inconsequential.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

inconsequential = not important

In fact, all I'd done with Derek—the best of it, and the worst of it—became instantly inconsequential.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned

inconsequential = not important

Food was a relatively cheap but not inconsequential expense; Generose bought her rice in bulk, in large, fifty-pound plastic sacks from the DeKalb County farmers' market, just down the road.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

inconsequential = not important

Because I worked among rich and famous athletes, I convinced myself that my needs were realistic, my greed inconsequential compared to theirs.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

inconsequential = not important

What I meant to say is that when I was a girl in Blundermeecen, I sat on this sofa and spoke with my grandmother about inconsequential things well into the gloom of the evening.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

inconsequential = not important

She was expected to speak of inconsequential things as the gloom of the evening descended.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
He is too young, and I am too old, and there is the not inconsequential fact that I cut off his hand.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
Inconsequential Worse yet, wasteful.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Around us, voices sounded as they always did everywhere, in a house of death, soft and inconsequential, and tidily assertive.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The fact that it 'll take my life is really inconsequential.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
The man was nothing: a tiny, inconsequential nothing.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
They talked through dinner, inconsequentially.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
I forced myself to concentrate on the logic problems, but somehow they seemed inconsequential to me.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
It seems to me to raise something dirty, unimportant, inconsequential, to a dignity that does not belong to it.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.
O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
Black people were considered unworthy and inconsequential.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up

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