Example sentences for: minutiae

How can you use “minutiae” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton is a man who hungers for minutiae, who can toss off reams of data like some Star Trek techie officer and make it even more theatrically compelling.

  • Which leads me to: a prig “irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree,” while a pedant “unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation of knowledge.”

  • Wolfe chastised his fellow novelists for abandoning the rich material at their doorstep in exchange for interiority, minutiae, and meta-fiction.

  • Neither Potok nor Abraham can immerse the reader in the minutiae of Hasidic life the way Goodman does in the particulars of separatist German ultra-Orthodoxy.

  • Over the years, their lobbies have been effective at working with local cranks to regulate the minutiae of the wine business.


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