peripheral

In a sentence

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

• Shipping delays are peripheral to the real problem, which is that two factories cannot get the alloy at all.

  Business

• The committee treated the color of the crystals as peripheral, since only the melting point could settle the argument.

  Science

• Whole subplots were cut because the director judged them peripheral, leaving only the two brothers and the drive north.

  Movies

• The tax question was peripheral in the debate, which turned almost entirely on who would fix the hospitals.

  Politics

• The coach called the jersey color peripheral and refused to discuss it until the defense stopped giving up layups.

  Basketball

• Whether the author was kind is peripheral to the argument, which stands or falls on its premises alone.

  Philosophy

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More Academic words

• preceding
• adaptation
• arbitrary
• varying
• relevant
• controversy
• participation
• intervene
• complexity
• communicating
• projection
• assure