minor

In a sentence

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

• A minor scheduling change moved the tip-off by fifteen minutes, and almost nobody in the arena noticed the difference.

  Basketball

• The dent was a minor flaw next to the cracked mount, so the shop fixed the serious problem first.

  Photography

• He held a minor post at court, handling the stable accounts while the great offices went to older families.

  History

• The cut needed only a minor procedure, three stitches under local anesthetic, and she went home the same afternoon.

  Medicine

• It was a minor release, two bug fixes and a new icon, so nobody expected the servers to fall over.

  Technology

• A minor character in the first book, the gardener becomes the narrator of the third and steals it.

  Literature

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More Academic words

• detect
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• legend
• simulation
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• indicator
• formulation
• constant
• accompanying
• defining