significance

In a sentence

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

• The broken comb seemed trivial until dating placed it in the earliest layer, and its significance grew with every later find.

  History

• The doctor explained the significance of the reading: anything above that line meant the whole treatment plan would be revisited.

  Medicine

• Critics argued for years about the significance of the small dog in the corner, which most viewers never notice.

  Art

• The judge weighed the significance of the missing signature, and decided it undid the entire contract.

  Law

• Philosophers ask what gives a life significance, and whether the answer changes when nobody else ever notices it.

  Philosophy

• Fans grasped the significance of the trade only in April, when the new center anchored a run to the finals.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

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

More Academic words

• individual
• incident
• indigenous
• awareness
• derive
• available
• comment
• located
• stress
• stressed
• capacity
• editing