Editorial »

How to use the word significant in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

2,571 results found

I wholeheartedly believe that success is never achieved in isolation, and I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to various individuals, groups, and resources that have played a significant role in my journey.

Adam Treasure

added by TalylorDru
6 months ago

Poetry holds a significant and enduring importance in human culture and society for a variety of reasons.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

An explosion or spillage from the tanker would not only result in an environmental disaster but also inflict significant damage on economic activities.

Ahmed Nagi

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Competition might actually help users find the product features they want, like greater privacy protection, portability, and more significant content moderation, social media platforms have features that users dislike but they still feel like they must accept them to just be in the online space where everyone else is.

Mark Bartholomew

Found on CNN
12 months ago

These are healthy children. With no prior significant medical history that would make them more prone…there wasn’t any known immunosuppression or anything like that.

Taryn Bragg

Found on CNN
12 months ago

These efforts have been paying off, demonstrated by a significant decline in illness over the past seven years.

Council President Mike Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reality of abortion being banned in all or most scenarios is a growing reality for many, although there was already significant variation in reproductive health policies across states, [ Roe v. Wade ] provided a ‘ floor ’ to legislation, meaning that abortion generally could n’t be banned before viability.

Brandon Crawford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Significant systemic benefits ensue from starting the statute of limitations clock when the state litigation in DNA testing cases like Reed’s has concluded.

Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Setting his politics aside, no one could say Marty Walsh didn’t have significant experience in negotiations and managing organizations, with 150 labor contracts expiring this year, the potential of replacing him with someone who has no direct experience handling labor disputes should be concerning.

Bill Cassidy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have seen in that leak a number of inaccuracies, significant inaccuracies, or manipulation of information, my advice is don’t take it at face value. There are definitely things in there that I’ve seen that I know not to be true.

Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But these findings were not being driven solely by teens with ADHD misusing their medications, we still found a significant association, even when we excluded students who were never prescribed ADHD therapy.

Sean Esteban McCabe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For a lot of people, this can be a very disruptive period of time, there is a significant time and paperwork burden being placed on families – a lot of them very low income, a lot of them medically vulnerable.

Sabrina Corlette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the light (of the fireball) to overwhelm the brightness of the day, it was a significant event.

Darryl Pitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unceremoniously abandoning these neighborhoods will create barriers to basic needs for thousands of residents, i call on Walmart to ensure that these soon-to-be-closed stores are repurposed with significant community engagement so they can find a new use to serve their neighborhoods.

Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People feel crushed by the work. We have to produce a lot of quality decisions in a short amount of time, those decisions are involving people’s significant trauma. Our officers absorb secondary trauma.

Michael Knowles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thoughts with Marseille, where a building on rue Tivoli collapsed last night. I am thinking of those affected and their loved ones. An investigation is continuing with significant resources deployed. Thank you to the firefighters and rescuers mobilized.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are still significant levels of discrimination and prejudice towards muxes in some parts of the country, and they continue to face significant challenges in terms of achieving full equality and acceptance, despite these obstacles, muxes have maintained their rights and identities, and they continue to be an important and valued part of Mexican culture.

Jacobo Ramírez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main reason why I’m not surprised is that we already know that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in our country, with Black women three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, and the main disparities that we see in mortality, we also see in morbidity.

Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These people know each other, often travel to the same destinations, communicate and have a closed system. Tatarsky occupied a significant place in this community, at the same time, he was also a critic of the Russian officer corps and the upper echelon making decisions about military actions. Sometimes his … analysis caused a wave of negative reactions among officers, because he, as a staunch defender of Russia and its army, wanted to see this army more successful than it actually was.

Ruslan Trad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have thought about growth but too little about its impact for too long, we need to be sustainable for our employees, the local environment and the world. I realise that our choices may have significant implications for the aviation industry, but they are necessary.

Ruud Sondag

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lifetime prevalence of infertility does not differ by income classification of countries, lifetime prevalence was 17.8% in high-income countries and 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries, which, again, was not a substantial or significant difference.

Gitau Mburu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But if stress is continuous, especially in older or unhealthy individuals, the long-term effects of the response to stress may lead to significant health issues.

Richard Scrivener

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for significant? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    an embarrassing mistake
    A gloat
    B excogitate
    C monish
    D flub