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Example sentences for "irrelevance"

Lexicographically close words:
irregular; irregularities; irregularity; irregularly; irregulars; irrelevancies; irrelevancy; irrelevant; irrelevantly; irreligion
  1. The old bogie of the logical irrelevance of origin was due to the inability to conceive continuity except in the form of identity in which there was no place for the notion of growth.

  2. No man desired the proposed ideal; and the very irrelevance of the systematic treatises strengthened the case for use and wont.

  3. Irrelevance is not irrelevant to such a scheme, and our blond-haired friend is exactly just where he ought to be here.

  4. There is no feat of irrelevance that people will not perform quite easily in this way; there is no class, however accidental, to which they will not at once ascribe deeply distinctive qualities.

  5. There must be fire starting over in the north-east, Steve meditated with an irrelevance strange even to himself--and that reference to her surely was not needed!

  6. The older woman received this irrelevance with composure.

  7. A momentary frenzy of irrelevance seized Sapps Court, and a feverish desire to fix the exact date when the table-leg was disintegrated.

  8. But the hunting of the spy, in the odd irrelevance or inconsistency of nature, was that day at least an enterprise altogether absent from his thoughts.

  9. He arose with the oddest irrelevance out of the unfathomable peace.

  10. It was his head which suggested that irrelevance was best.

  11. With apparent irrelevance he reached for his ivory paper-cutter and began bending it dangerously between his adept fingers.

  12. Senior Surgeon, with an irrelevance surprising even to himself.

  13. Only bad judgment or partiality could account for his permission of such gross irrelevance as filled the speeches of Mr Leighton and Mr F.

  14. On the 15th of the same month, in the debate on the second reading of the Irish Tenants' Compensation Bill, he protested against the irrelevance of the Tory opposition to the Bill.

  15. Then I heard, with perfect irrelevance to Herman Wagner, that she wouldn't have a puncher on the place that owned his own horse.

  16. I must always permit her certain speeches of seeming irrelevance before she will consent to tell me all.

  17. With a touch of rustic quaintness he said, with seeming irrelevance to the subject, "Have you ever picked wild strawberries in the fields, Mr. Crane?

  18. He laughed a little at the irrelevance of this thought, for it was not a question of weight-carrying at all; two-year-olds at a hundred pounds in a sprint of only five furlongs.

  19. Valtrauta, however, betrays her irrelevance by explaining that the gods can be saved by the restoration of the ring to the Rhine maidens.

  20. For a moment Archer fancied that Mr. Letterblair must have told her of his coming; but the irrelevance of her next remark made him change his mind.

  21. I asked, astonished at the irrelevance that came rapidly from her lips, as if she must cry it out or choke.

  22. You walked to the trough-stane when you were a twelvemonth old," said my father with the irrelevance of great grief, as if he recalled a dead son's infancy.

  23. All mechanical laws exhibit acceleration as a function of configuration, not of configuration and time jointly; and this principle of the irrelevance of the time may be extended to all scientific laws.

  24. But the meaning of [Greek: thriambeuonti] is not really open to doubt, and the semblance of irrelevance disappears if we remember that we are dealing with a figure, and a figure which the Apostle himself does not press.

  25. It cannot be denied, I think, if this is taken quite rigorously, that there is a certain air of irrelevance about it.

  26. There is a historical knowledge of Christ which is a mere irrelevance to Christianity, and it has sometimes a stress laid upon it by its possessors which tempts one to speak of it in St. Paul's scornful tone.

  27. The emotional form consists partly in the irrelevance amid which the idea is brought out, producing continual shocks of surprise.

  28. To which he added with an irrelevance that was only superficial: "I come from Woollett Massachusetts.

  29. It made her for some reason--the irrelevance or whatever--laugh.

  30. Bergson insists on the irrelevance of spatial terms to psychic processes, but overlooks the equal irrelevance of terms of preventable personal action.

  31. When passed, the total irrelevance of the resolution to any right or duty of the Senate was made manifest by the insignificance that attended its decision.

  32. Coincident with this coup, the decadence and irrelevance of traditional Buddhism had begun to weigh heavily upon a new group of spiritual reformers.

  33. Perhaps he was proposing these two contradictory cases to demonstrate the irrelevance of an inquiry after his physical state.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrelevance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.