Benign is an English word with synonyms like harmless or kind. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Benign in a sentence
Related words
Benign meaning
- Kind; gentle; mild.
- mild and favorable
- Not harmful to the environment.
Using Benign
- The main meaning on this page is: Kind; gentle; mild. | mild and favorable | Not harmful to the environment.
- Useful related words include: harmless, kind, malignant, benignant.
- In the example corpus, benign often appears in combinations such as: benign and, as benign, more benign.
Context around Benign
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Benign
- In this selection, "benign" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seem, main, adjective, prostatic, essential and prostate stand out and add context to how "benign" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a common benign laryngeal condition and an event benign or otherwise. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "benign" sits close to words such as abolish, annex and appropriations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with benign
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Christella commented: "Nodules are a common benign laryngeal condition that makes voices sound husky. (14 words)
It is the most common type of benign brain tumour diagnosed in the UK. (14 words)
I still have the shadows but they're benign, so they are still there but they are benign. (18 words)
I understood quite early on that the tumour was a benign meningioma - tumours that start in the layers of tissue that cover the brain and spinal cord - but that it was attached to a major vein which it had pushed to one side. (43 words)
Despite these benign-seeming questions, scammers can then use the personal information you share to respond to security questions from your accounts or hack your social media to send malware links to your contacts. (34 words)
Advocates of a pause in rate hikes argue that negotiated wage growth is still relatively benign and indicates that workers are just trying to recoup earnings lost to years of high inflation. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
I still have the shadows but they're benign, so they are still there but they are benign.
We are scratching the surface in terms of things that seem benign, but when you get into them, they range from not-so-benign to downright toxic.
Based on the Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Medication industrial chain, this report mainly elaborates the definition, types, applications and major players of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Medication market in details.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia main Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) occurs in older men; citation the prostate often enlarges to the point where urination becomes difficult.
Essential tremor has been known as "benign essential tremor", but the adjective "benign" has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.
A double blind, placebo-controlled randomized comparative study on the efficacy of phytosterol-enriched and conventional saw palmetto oil in mitigating benign prostate hyperplasia and androgen deficiency.
Advocates of a pause in rate hikes argue that negotiated wage growth is still relatively benign and indicates that workers are just trying to recoup earnings lost to years of high inflation.
Although every girl or woman who is sexually active will become infected with HPV, most strains are benign and will not harm people with healthy immune systems.
Although Russia has a of war with Europe and the West, it also had two recent decades of benign relations, 1991-2011, that can serve as a useful guidepost.
As men age, their prostate tends to increase in size, which is referred to as an enlarged prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH.
Christella commented: "Nodules are a common benign laryngeal condition that makes voices sound husky.
Context Collapse is when an event — benign or otherwise — is posted to social media without the necessary or accurate background information.
Despite these benign-seeming questions, scammers can then use the personal information you share to respond to security questions from your accounts or hack your social media to send malware links to your contacts.
For example, a vast majority of headaches do not signify brain tumours, so it makes sense to consider more benign causes unless symptoms become severe.
He is able to pick up and manipulate objects with motions of his hand like a benign Carrie White, gluing them together to form a seemingly limitless number of contraptions and vehicles.
He treats skin cancers and provides surgical treatment of both malignant and benign conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands, and has a clinical interest in treating pancreatic cysts.
It is the most common type of benign brain tumour diagnosed in the UK.
It was benign, and unrelated to Parkinson’s disease, which he’s battled for more than 30 years.
I understood quite early on that the tumour was a benign meningioma - tumours that start in the layers of tissue that cover the brain and spinal cord - but that it was attached to a major vein which it had pushed to one side.
Most of the questions posed on the page are pretty benign — concerns over bad chemistry grades and fears over the uncertainty of study abroad programs.
Common combinations with benign
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- benign and 14×
- as benign 10×
- more benign 10×
- are benign 8×
- the benign 8×
- of benign 8×
- was benign 8×
- and benign 7×
- is benign 7×
- benign but 6×