How to Use necessarily in a Sentence

necessarily

adverb

• Not all the flashy stuff necessarily, but kind of the inner him that we were all so touched by.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
• This of course is not a sound way to make soup, but sometimes the chef doesn’t have the time or resources to do necessarily things in the best of ways.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• But this wasn’t the necessarily the time for this kind of music.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Most of the pledges are as made; some have necessarily changed as the circumstances have changed.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 11 June 2023
• The Lakers need to find the best fits — not necessarily the most talent — to play with James, Davis and Westbrook.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• But that doesn’t necessarily mean group settings are the way to go.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• But one of them necessarily leads to a bit more job-hopping.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Dark red in the map doesn't necessarily mean a home is overtaxed.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2022
• The presence of co-stars was a balm, but Ripley, necessarily, is alone a great deal.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 May 2024
• Image At the same time, even that is no longer necessarily enough.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• But now the question is going to be, does that necessarily meet the moment?
  — CBS News, 11 June 2023
• But that does not mean a strike will necessarily happen, as was the case with Teamsters at UPS last year.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 19 July 2024
• And yet, Chang doesn’t believe brett to necessarily be a flaw.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2024
• Not to the Chiefs fans necessarily, not scary but awful.
  — Sidney Steele, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• The upshot is that Young doesn’t necessarily have to score.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• That doesn't mean the claimant is necessarily the winner just yet.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• The problem for the Heat at power forward is that there isn’t necessarily a Plan B.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
• And not out of malice necessarily, some people are just so in their heads about their own stuff.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
• But that’s not to say Mars necessarily hosted vast oceans and rivers—or at least not during that era.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• And learning how to be the one to initiate those things without sort of the help of her parents, necessarily.
  — Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 14 July 2023
• Keep in mind that cheaper forms of jade look dull and waxy are not necessarily more sturdy, Chiu says.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2022
• They’re not all necessarily designed as rabble-rousers, but a a lot of them are.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
• He's beloved by his party's base, but not necessarily as much among the electorate at large.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
• The clip went viral, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• Is Enough, but achieving fame wasn't necessarily a goal of his.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
• That’s not to say that anonymity is necessarily safe, or easy.
  — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Mays didn’t necessarily need to take a vocal stand, the film contends.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 8 Nov. 2022
• That doesn’t mean people on Medicare will necessarily see price drops of 25% to 50%, though.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 25 Oct. 2023
• Mukherjee: The canon’s necessarily backward-looking because some time must have passed for a book to have made it in.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• That would necessarily cause confusion and could result in companies who were waiting for further instruction to miss deadlines.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024