Sentence Examples

  • The insignificance of the Jewish community in Palestine was their salvation.
  • One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him.
  • The withdrawal of the trade between Europe and the East, caused by the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope, and the misgovernment of the native rulers, had gradually reduced Aden to a state of comparative insignificance; but about the time of its capture by the British the Red Sea route to India was reopened, and commerce soon began to flow in its former channel.
  • Looking into Napoleon's eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.
  • One moment, he was a speck of nothing in this vastness that defined his insignificance; another, this whole world was his.
 
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