marginal

In a sentence

Six example sentences with marginal, each labelled with its topic.

• A marginal strip of the negative was never exposed, which is why the print shows a pale band down one side.

  Photography

• Marginal land along the ditches was left unplowed, and within two summers it held more insects than the field.

  Environment

• The plan keeps services in a marginal band around the floor plate, leaving the center clear for open desks.

  Architecture

• The used copy came with marginal notes from an earlier reader, arguing with the author on nearly every page.

  Literature

• Monks drew marginal figures, rabbits playing trumpets and snails in helmets, along the edges of their prayer books.

  History

• Sea ice thins in the marginal zone where the pack meets open water, and researchers moor buoys there each spring.

  Science

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains marginal. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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