How to Use unessential in a Sentence

unessential

adjective

• No one knows how long the public will be urged to heed warnings to stay inside and avoid unessential travel.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Mar. 2020
• Many of us who are not essential workers feel unessential, not to mention constrained, helpless, and weak.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 May 2020
• That’s when unessential parts of the federal government shut down until the impasse is broken.
  — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• Griz like others in his trade was grounded last spring by Gov. Tim Walz, who decreed that these professionals were unessential to Minnesota life.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• There was half a day left before everything shut down at midnight, before everything deemed unessential was put into limbo by order of the state.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2020
• The government hasn’t restricted travel to Wuhan but advises against unessential trips.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• People entering states for essential and unessential travel reasons will need to complete this form.
  — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• But there’s just something about trying to shoehorn in a college football season that seems decidedly unessential.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• On Sunday, the government ordered unessential business to close and required people to practice social distancing in the city of 1.1 million people.
  — Hau Dinh, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• Others didn’t, leaving the workers vulnerable to getting cited for an unessential trip.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• Top Iranian officials initially downplayed the risks posed by the virus, before recently urging the public to wear masks and avoid unessential travel.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2020
• The judge ordered Shiloh to stop using any unessential security measures, such as denying children drinking water.
  — Samantha Schmidt, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
• The trips at first conflicted with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance against unessential travel amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2021
• Top Iranian officials initially downplayed the risks posed by the virus outbreak, before recently urging the public to follow measures like wearing masks and avoiding unessential travel.
  — Nasser Karimi, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• All frivolities, such as politics and culture, would be deemed unessential, and life would be rationalized and run on principles of industrial efficiency.
  — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 23 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024