Sample Sentences for
irrelevant
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  • Can't see what witness's literacy has to do with the case, irrelevant 'n' immaterial.  (source)
    irrelevant = not related or significant to the subject being considered
  • But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth.  (source)
    irrelevant = unimportant
  • He was offered membership in Phi Beta Kappa but declined, insisting that titles and honors are irrelevant.  (source)
    irrelevant = not important or not of interest
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  • But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do.  (source)
    irrelevant = not related in a significant way to the subject being considered
  • "That's good," said Winnie irrelevantly.  (source)
    irrelevantly = in a manner that is not important enough to want to consider
  • The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.  (source)
    irrelevance = something unimportant
  • It was astonishing to him how people could spend so much time on irrelevancies.†  (source)
  • Irrelevancy...†  (source)
  • He thinks exercise is irrelevant, because Tua is going to unlock the key to eternal life.  (source)
    irrelevant = not important
  • This silk dress is not warm enough for New England, she thought irrelevantly.  (source)
    irrelevantly = without relevance to what's important at the moment
  • An irrelevance.†  (source)
  • If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.†  (source)
  • She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars.†  (source)
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