Sentence examples for benign items from inspiring English sources

Consumers might look askance at a list that includes, without explanation, even fairly benign items like yeast nutrients, tartaric acid, sulfur dioxide or French oak chips.

In more recent times, soldiers have returned home with more benign items, such as vehicle number plates, bullet hole-ridden signs from places they have fought, flags or newspapers.

UNICEF has taught more than 60,000 people to differentiate between explosives and benign items in the last two-and-a-half months, according to Rzehak.

In contrast, the analysis of response criterion scores (c) indicated a more lax criterion was used for emotionally negative items, with corresponding captions being more likely to be endorsed than benign items.

For negative items, images were rated as being more unpleasant than sentences, t(48) = 3.19, p<.002, d = 0.46, whereas for benign items, images were rated as being more pleasant than sentences, t(48) = 2.54, p <.02, d = 0.36.

In contrast to this emotion-related difference in response bias, in Experiments 1 and 2 we found little difference in a signal detection measure of sensitivity between emotionally negative and benign items.

At first glance, this account does not provide an obvious explanation of why, when rated for size, the source of benign (or neutral) items was less accurately identified than was that of emotionally negative items.

Here, friends, is the danger of depending too much on X-ray searches — there is a valley between the dangerous and the benign and most items fit in it but if you make something dangerous that looks utterly benign or make something benign that looks, to the trained TSA agent, dangerous, you're in trouble.

Some items have benign uses.

Some of the items were benign; a feather boa, some olive oil, roses.

At first glance, American pinup photographs and paintings of the late 30s through World War II seem like benign, quaint relics of Americana, items that are usually appreciated for their sweet, apple-cheeked, all-American female subjects and little else.