unimportant

Example Sentences

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Unimportant, yet rising to the dignity of a fate that “must be studied”—that is the shadowy destiny of Solstad’s men, the mystery that keeps the reader engrossed, even when the books risk tedium.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

Unimportant page-filling pap, rightly excised in favour of more snaps of Her Majesty nearly smiling?

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2012

Mr. Savu’s paintings — “An Unimportant Day,” “Three Friends” and “The Shepherd” — feature snapshotlike views of exactly what the title of the first canvas suggests: banality, the mundane and the quotidian.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2011

Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unimportant kids' coats were put at either end of the lake as goalmouths to reach through and to defend.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell