The British probably had another grand opportunity of ending the war on their occupation of New York, when Washington and his relatively insignificant army were virtually in their power while in retreat.
The war that followed with the French republic was insignificant in its operations, and was immediately terminated by Napoleon when he overthrew the Directory, and seized the government for his own ambitious objects.
In 1856 an assembly was called, despite the insignificant population of the island.
He refused to lend himself to the designs of the insignificant British minority, chiefly from the New England colonies, or to be guided by their advice in carrying on his government.
General Drummond, who was in command of the western army, retaliated by the capture of Fort Niagara and the destruction of all the villages on the American side of the river as far as Buffalo, then a very insignificant place.
There are now, and will hereafter be, many causes, dangerous in their tendency, which have not existed heretofore, and which are not too insignificant to merit attention.
She had the same quick, pale eyes, with the shrewdness of observation that never needed to look twice, the same colourless brows and lashes and insignificant features; but she possessed one redeeming point which Nick lacked.
No one deemed her colourless or insignificant that night.
It lays down a perfectly scientific and universal basis, believing that the most insignificant industry, to be perfectly understood and pursued, must proceed from a knowledge of the great principles of science and of all truth.
But when he arrived he found that the grinding at the mills of government was going on much too evenly to be disturbed by the introduction of any such insignificant foreign substance as a colonial protest.
To have it on record that I had been guyed by these insignificant spawn when on night watch, and had to give in to their impudence because I could not handle them,--this would be an indelible disgrace on my life.
I cannot be moved in the least by the logic by so insignificant a fellow as the head teacher of a middle school.
But now, do you imagine that my proud cousin would be the one to suffer a rival in the shape of an unknown, insignificant little Buergermaedchen?
It was a small, unimportant little box, an old fashioned, insignificant piece of goods, which had belonged to her father, and which only a feeling of filial respect hindered the daughter from parting with.
Nobody knows better than I what a plain, insignificant creature I am.
Almost frighteningly fragile in her dark street dress, she would have been entirely insignificant if it had not been for the appalling misery of her eyes.
I could not sit down on a bench by myself or set my foot any place without being assailed by insignificant accidents, miserable details, that forced their way into my imagination and scattered my powers to all the four winds.
Insignificant as it looked, this stump of pencil had simply made me what I was in the world, so to say, placed me in life.
We moved due north from Lutende by forced marches and crossed the Mbemkuru, now once more an insignificant stream, without difficulty, two days’ march below Nahungu.
On the shores of Lake Nyassa there were only insignificant encounters.
An insignificant incident brought Maria to a decision.
Above the garden wall rose the masts of a few vessels, not a dozen in all, anchored by the quay, the majority of them smacks and schooners[5] of insignificant draught.
Rosarito and her lover had taken possession of a corner, only from time to time making some insignificant remark roused into the category of the sublime by the inflection of the voice and the trembling of the lips.
When he was in command of the schoolship, the second officer taunted him about his insignificant size.
James Mill treated his wife as if her office and opinions were too insignificant to consider seriously--she was only an unimportant incident in his life.
An insignificant part of the sales had been lately made to settlers.
This was the attitude, not only of Van Buren and Adams, but of every statesman North and South, and of the entire North itself with insignificant exceptions.
They did indeed burn Huss; but that could not be called a beneficial incident; that seemed to Sigismund and the Council a most small and insignificant one.
For the antiquaries have again found him signed to some contract, or otherwise insignificant document, A.
Ninety per cent of the population of India lives from hand to mouth and depends for sustenance upon the crops raised upon little patches of ground which in America would be too insignificant for consideration.
These monkeys are fed regularly at the expense of the Jains, and none of God's creatures is too insignificant or irritating to escape their comprehensive benevolence.
It is difficult in a great country like India where wages are so small and the cost of living is so insignificant compared with our own country, to judge accurately of the condition of the laboring classes.
In contrast with these nations, let us consider the example of an opposite character afforded by another and a comparatively insignificant Oriental people--the Jews.
Generals, admirals, peers of the United Kingdom are made, and there is nothing which hinders prime ministers to be made from those insignificant islands.
The thing that befell at Bethlehem, in the stable of the inn, was a commonplace andinsignificant enough event looked at from the outside: the birth of a child to a young mother.
But, on the other hand, we may very easily fall into the error of treating as insignificant details which really are meant to be full of instruction.
They had to be content to do a very insignificantretail trade.
Her Cleopatra was insignificant compared with Sarah's--she is not so pictorial.
Dealing with my correspondence, even with the help of a secretary, is no insignificant work.
As Katherine she wanted me to wear steely silver and bronzy gold, but all the brocades had such insignificant designs.
The most important expeditions of the Indians, even for long distances, were undertaken by insignificant forces.
Consequently the eternal companions of monogamy, hetaerism and adultery, play an almost insignificant role here.
The domestic labor of women was considered insignificant in comparison to men's work for a living.
It was a queer sight, the picture that slight, insignificant figure made huddled there in the dimness of the hall.
The more intimately acquainted one becomes with Beethoven, the more one clings to certain singularities and finds that even insignificant details are not without their value.
He was too immoderately productive, wrote incessantly, mixing insignificantwith important things, grand things with mediocre work, paid no heed to criticism, and always soared on his wings.
My endeavors to secure him comfortable quarters in Weimar seem for the time being to be useless, because of his dislike to an insignificant appointment, and the adverse circumstances of life in a small town.
In defiance of Mr. Gandhi, candidates came forward in almost every constituency, elections were held everywhere, and except for a few insignificant disturbances created by his followers they were held in peaceful and orderly fashion.
Mr. Gladstone, thwarted in all his attempts, except in the last insignificant case, to bring about a better state of things in connexion with the management of Savings Banks, determined upon another course of action altogether.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insignificant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
