Wondering how to use Irrelevance in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as irrelevancy or relevance.
Irrelevance in a sentence
Irrelevance meaning
Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
Synonyms of Irrelevance
Using Irrelevance
- The main meaning on this page is: Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
- Useful related words include: irrelevancy, unconnectedness, relevance.
- In the example corpus, irrelevance often appears in combinations such as: the irrelevance, irrelevance of, an irrelevance.
Context around Irrelevance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irrelevance
- In this selection, "irrelevance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, complete, gazing, looming, alongside and although stand out and add context to how "irrelevance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a complete irrelevance through the and a word irrelevance. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irrelevance" sits close to words such as abstention, actuarial and admonition, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irrelevance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is, in a word, irrelevance. (6 words)
The liberal arts in academia continue to dumb themselves down to irrelevance. (12 words)
The Weather Underground continued its slide into irrelevance, and political violence eventually receded. (13 words)
So I was surprised when a prominent broadcaster weighed in to lecture me on the irrelevance of my comment, then simply ignored efforts made to highlight to her the racism experienced by some staff in the line of duty. (39 words)
It's a shame that Van de Beek couldn't succeed at United and there's been little chatter about his omissions from squads this season, which highlights how he's become an irrelevance and a forgotten player. (38 words)
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears? (35 words)
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears? (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
He may now face a long slide into the relative obscurity and irrelevance which he says he wanted all along.
However if they don’t they risk appearing an irrelevance and polls in America have shown a seismic drop in their support.
Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears?
It's a shame that Van de Beek couldn't succeed at United and there's been little chatter about his omissions from squads this season, which highlights how he's become an irrelevance and a forgotten player.
While many directors have spent the last several years waxing nostalgic about cinema’s past and power, Erice taps into the feeling of watching your passion move to the sidelines before fading into irrelevance.
The match itself was largely an irrelevance, although with a Scottish Cup final on the horizon next weekend, Celtic had more to motivate them than their visitors.
The N.F.L. is hoping its new rules can keep injuries low while saving the kickoff from irrelevance.
Whereas it had been a complete irrelevance through the group stages, the schedule in front of Bolton looked clear enough for them to give it a go.
Seven years is a long time to be contributing virtually nothing to the games industry and their reputation for irrelevance is clearly going to be difficult to scrub off.
So I was surprised when a prominent broadcaster weighed in to lecture me on the irrelevance of my comment, then simply ignored efforts made to highlight to her the racism experienced by some staff in the line of duty.
The church is no exception and at times comes across to many as a divided navel gazing irrelevance.
We have lived in this purgatory of irrelevance for so long that it sucks to have to wait another year.
With each new decision, the Roberts court ensures the Supreme Court's impotence and irrelevance for years and decades to come.
An epic and melancholy hangout film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a film star grappling with his looming irrelevance.
It is, in a word, irrelevance.
The liberal arts in academia continue to dumb themselves down to irrelevance.
The more plausible judgment, however, is that we were an expensive irrelevance, not so different from the Mesoamerican priesthoods of earlier centuries.
The US has submitted its suggestions to the WTO which states that self-declaration puts the WTO on a path to failed negotiations and it is also a path to institutional irrelevance.
The Weather Underground continued its slide into irrelevance, and political violence eventually receded.
We then brought up the possibility that maybe pansexuality is a word for people who want to be explicit about the irrelevance of a person's genitalia—or other sex characteristics—to their sexual attraction.
Common combinations with irrelevance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the irrelevance 6×
- irrelevance of 6×
- an irrelevance 5×
- into irrelevance 5×
- irrelevance and 4×
- its irrelevance 3×
- and irrelevance 2×
- irrelevance to 2×
- for irrelevance 2×
- of irrelevance 2×