Sample sentences for NEGLIGIBLE

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so small as to be not worth considering

The effect was negligible.

Those who disagree with the Kyoto Protocol insist that it will trade enormous resources for negligible benefits. Many proponents argue exactly the opposite.
The EPA switched to using a "negligible risk" standard rather than the "zero risk" standard.
They cover the picture with acrylic because the material protects the picture from light exposure with negligible loss of light transmittance and clarity.
The city's support for the arts is negligible.
I'm afraid I can't regard a gap of three years as negligible.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
It was preparing letters and lectures about the flying saucers, the negligibility of death and the true nature of time.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
The pressure was negligible.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Overall impact on war: negligible.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
She was not negligible, she could still arrest the attention of a high official's wife.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
The Catholic Church has had its wings clipped so often lately that its part was timidly negligible, and they haven't any good writers any more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
It was that of all the people he had grown up among, and he had always regarded it as necessary but negligible.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
For a man with negligible expectations, he had not done badly by 1937 standards.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
But the likelihood of someone else having murdered all three of them is negligible.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
My contribution to the effort was negligible, needless to say, and it took nearly an hour to complete the job.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Astaroth's impact might have been negligible, except for a sight Max witnessed some days later.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
But chance that a girl that big is virgin is negligible.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
She was almost negligible.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
In Rusty's case, the evidence was negligible; he had merely been found at Rivonia with the others.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The percentage is .... so small as to be negligible.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

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