trivial

Example Sentences

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Such trivial concerns were left to lesser schools, institutions that perhaps couldn’t appreciate the sanctity of a 10-week regular season, the purity of life without football scholarships, or the venerable tradition of Harvard-Yale.

From The Wall Street Journal

The fact that it was a parlor game, not pointillism, that inspired the lyric is proof of Sondheim’s credo that “playful doesn’t mean trivial any more than solemn means serious.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"I know money is trivial in this situation but we have spent thousands on cancelled flights. We are lucky we have the means to do so."

From BBC

But pass or fail, a lot of drivers say they find a number of the questions to be infuriatingly trivial and useless in determining driving ability.

From Los Angeles Times

With much more serious choices pending for Americans at the polls in just a couple of days, the side-taking game surrounding Madonna’s collapsed marriage is trivial at best.

From Los Angeles Times