TRIVIAL in a Sentence

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59 example sentences for TRIVIAL, such as:

1. The message was absurd and trivial.
2. He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.
3. Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a trivial matter.
4. Please don't omit any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.
5. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIVIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trivial
 a.  unimportant; of little significance or value; ordinary; commonplace
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
2  All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Before they parted, she had to thank him for another pleasure, and one of no trivial kind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  Such, she believed, were his words; but scarcely had she received their sound, than her attention was caught by other sounds immediately behind her, which rendered every thing else trivial.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  The pedestrian noticed nothing just now, and a clue to her abstraction was afforded by a trivial incident.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
6  The boy crept along under the bank to ascertain from the nature of the proceedings if it would be prudent to interrupt so splendid a creature as Miss Eustacia on his poor trivial account.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
7  As I expected, his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but characteristic defects.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  I dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
10  The incident however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible bearing upon the case.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
11  But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
12  Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
13  The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
14  The message was absurd and trivial.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
15  On the other hand, although it is trivial, it is undoubtedly queer, and I know that you have a taste for all that is out of the common.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence:
1  The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
2  The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride.
3  He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.
4  Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
5  They had been quite good friends for years, until they fell out about some trivial matter.
6  Please don't omit any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.
7  Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a trivial matter.
8  Mr Madhi escaped from Iran in February 2008 after being sentenced to 73 years in jail for what he described as a trivial charge.
9  I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing.
10  I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.
11  Had she rattled off a list of magazines I'm sure Cunty Couric would have had more gotcha crap to throw at her, like trivial minutia from a specific article that nobody would remember.