Sentence examples for marginal figure from inspiring English sources

You can use the phrase "marginal figure" in written English.
It is typically used to refer to someone or something that is not influential or significant. Example: He was a marginal figure at the company and found it difficult to make any meaningful contributions to the team.

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Aulaqi is not a marginal figure.

Mr. Moussaoui, she said, "was a marginal figure".

Mustafa Mahmoud is not a marginal figure in Egyptian society.

Yet today Koestler is a strangely marginal figure.

Only in the cold-war era did Orwell cease to be an awkward, marginal figure.

He suggested similarly that Nemtsov was a marginal figure, "scarcely more important than your average citizen".

Thackeray has been thought of as a marginal figure without credibility at the national level.

Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, was a vocal if marginal figure in contemporary Russian politics.

Maroussia was only a marginal figure, though the rumours about her health proved to be portentous.

All of which is to say that Corsi is, or ought to be, a marginal figure.

He said he was sympathetic to her plight as "a marginal figure who is a sick addict".

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