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How to use triviality in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Triviality means the quality of being trivial or unimportant. Example: “I never bother about such trivialities.”

Examples of triviality by meaning

nounSomething which is trivial or unimportant.

  • I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
  • After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.1922 February–March, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Problem of Thor Bridge”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi]...

More sentences with triviality

  • I never bother about such trivialities.From the entry bother
  • The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel.2007, Robert Kenneth Jones, The Shudder Pulps, page 6. From the entry meat
  • The computer itself is of the utmost triviality to the workings of the infomachine you are watching.1991, David H. Gelernter, Mirror Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry infomachine
  • The triviality of the scalar φ⁴ model and the Weinberg-Salam model lost its mysticity.1990, Anna Hasenfratz, “The Standard Model from Actions to Answers”, in From Actions to Answers: Proceedings of the 1989 Theoretical…. From the entry mysticity
  • She genned him up on all manner of trivialities.2013, D.M. Samson, Ausländer, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry gen up
  • He was starting to get frustrated now, me keeping him from the Long Orbit with this nidderling triviality.1992, Eluki Bes Shahar, Darktraders, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry nidderling
  • He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, p.409. From the entry tell
  • It seems that in general the more nearly a theory approximates incontrovertibility, the more nearly does it approximate triviality.1941, A. H. Copeland, “Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of Probability”, in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 48, no. 8, part 1…. From the entry incontrovertibility
  • The Wodehousian way is the ability to effortlessly expand characters, trivialities and plots and exaggerate the mundane to great comic or catastrophic effect.2015 August 4, Delshad Irani, “Jeeves@100: Here's how PG Wodehouse influences Indian copy writing”, in Economic Times. From the entry Wodehousian
  • Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4. From the entry immortality
  • Accordingly, the columnist is a Blondin, treading a tightrope over Victoria Falls between obscurity and triviality, condescension and ostentation, and often falling into the foaming minestrone.2013, Philip Howard, “What is the correct term?”, in Modern Manners: The Essential Guide to Correct Behaviour and Etiquette, London: The…. From the entry blondin
  • As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.1994, Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press…. From the entry anti-villain

Meaning of triviality

  1. noun The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  2. noun Something which is trivial or unimportant.

Full definition of triviality

Questions about triviality in a sentence

How do you use triviality in a sentence?
Triviality is used as a noun. For example: “I never bother about such trivialities.”
What is a short sentence with triviality?
“I never bother about such trivialities.”
What does triviality mean?
Triviality means the quality of being trivial or unimportant.

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