How to use "benign" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "benign" in popular movie and book plots

  • House discovers a benign tumor in her heart, which is surgically removed, but it does not account for the hallucinations.  - Autopsy (House)
  • The tumor is found to be benign and was successfully removed.  - Roses Are Red (novel)
  • The surgery reveals the benign tumor that House suspected.  - Need to Know (House)
  • The phenomena seem benign at first, but quickly begin to intensify.  - Poltergeist (1982 film)
  • But then, perhaps, even in the 70s', this seemingly benign film may have carried that ironic undercurrent of social commentary.  - Olly Olly Oxen Free (film)
  • The setting is the type of benign Venus imagined before the first space probes penetrated the clouds of that planet.  - When the People Fell
  • Ware, who works part-time taking bets, seems initially to be a benign character.  - The Sleeping City
  • Castle Roogna is haunted by relatively benign ghosts and zombies and is an area of heightened magical power.  - A Spell for Chameleon
  • When the results do come, the lump is revealed to be a benign fatty corpuscle.  - Death Is a Bitch
  • Once on board, Peter is subjected to some rather unsettling albeit benign boarding procedures and finds himself in a truly alien world.  - My Teacher Is an Alien
  • The girl and the elephant (which is extremely intelligent and benign and whom Nel calls "King" because of its size) quickly become friends.  - In Desert and Wilderness
  • The benign signals that the Riim send are incompatible with the human mind.  - The Voyage of the Space Beagle
  • Muriel dismisses her remarks as hyperbole, regarding her husband's idiosyncrasies as benign and manageable.  - A Perfect Day for Bananafish
  • Over time, and with further help from Ivo, the group watches a benign form the entire broadcast, which they come to call "traveller".  - Macroscope (novel)
  • However, his interests in those are rather benign and not overly carnal.  - The Pope Must Die
  • Some humans are suspicious of the Overlords' benign intent, as they never visibly appear.  - Childhood's End

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