Sample sentences for IRRELEVANT

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Definition

not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)

The sentence should be deleted because it introduces information that is irrelevant to the passage.

irrelevant = not relevant

The writer should delete the sentence because it provides background information that is irrelevant to the paragraph.

irrelevant = not important or meaningful to the issue at hand (not relevant)

He habitually wastes the committee's time with digressions on irrelevant topics.

irrelevant = not relevant

Can't see what witness's literacy has to do with the case, irrelevant 'n' immaterial.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

irrelevant = not related or significant to the subject being considered

He thinks exercise is irrelevant, because Tua is going to unlock the key to eternal life.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

irrelevant = not important

irrelevantly = in a manner that is not important enough to want to consider

  "We've killed a pig." ...
  "You let the fire go out."
  Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him.
  "We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time."
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

irrelevance = something that is unimportant

"Let's go back, Tom. Tomorrow!" Then she added irrelevantly: "You ought to see the baby."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

irrelevantly = not related to what is being discussed

Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

irrelevant = not important or not of interest

"Now let's consider this calmly-" began Atticus, but Mr. Gilmer interrupted with an objection: he was not irrelevant or immaterial, but Atticus was browbeating the witness.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

irrelevant = not related or significant to the subject being considered

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.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

irrelevance = something unimportant

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

irrelevant = not related or significant to the subject being considered

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Granted, Peter was the one who brought in the gun" 'That's irrelevant,' Jordan said.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
The reporter Mary Elson grasped none of this and wrote in the Chicago Tribune that John's pole comment was "an oddly irrelevant afterthought."
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Once well into the country, Paul dismissed the carriage and walked, floundering along the tracks, his mind a medley of irrelevant things.
Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
I'm so sorry that we never got that garden seat," she said irrelevantly.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
Some notions of time are irrelevant.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter

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