How to Use unnecessarily in a Sentence

unnecessarily

adverb

• The suit said the teen's life was unnecessarily cut short.
  — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• Whether Williams made the game unnecessarily difficult or saved the night was in the eye of the beholder.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• This keeps them off of the floor and from getting unnecessarily scratched.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2022
• The film’s plot is an unnecessarily loose bag of bones, some of them inspired, some less so.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• That meant stale lollipops for the kids and unnecessarily long lines for adults.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Both restaurants and homes can (and should!) apply the method to keep kitchens neat and prevent food from unnecessarily going to waste.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2024
• To avoid throwing away food unnecessarily, make sure to avoid this scenario in the future.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
• Some people unnecessarily cut out whole food groups to achieve specific sizes or extreme weight loss goals, but this can take a toll on the body, Gans said.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2023
• Five years after his death, those closest to him are left with grief and the bitter taste of a life sacrificed unnecessarily.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Some people unnecessarily cut out whole food groups to achieve specific sizes or extreme weight loss goals, but this can take a toll on the body, Gans said.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2024
• Time to pull out all the unnecessarily uncomfortable clothes that have been hiding in the back of the closet just waiting to see sunlight again.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 23 Mar. 2021
• At the same time, Fed officials do not want to brake too hard, which could unnecessarily cause a recession.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• On one hand, breasts have given us so much, like scoop neck tops and those unnecessarily erotic Carl’s Jr. commercials from the mid-aughts.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• The goal is to ensure elections officials don’t close polling places unnecessarily or are wary of the new, third-party help.
  — Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• That marked the end of an unnecessarily steep sell-off in response to its late August earnings report.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
• We’ve paid for this failing in the hundreds of thousands who have died unnecessarily.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Residents were urged to stay indoors and not to travel unnecessarily during the hottest times of day.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
• But the timing and unfolding of this process was bizarre and unnecessarily egregious for UConn.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2024
• While each route needs convenient stops, too many can unnecessarily slow the trip.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2022
• Yet instead of learning from the past, the DoD is unnecessarily putting servicemembers’ lives at risk in the future.
  — David Williams, National Review, 20 July 2021
• In Sport mode, the Lotus feels restless and unnecessarily abrupt.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
• As a result, the operation, crammed into the span of a few weeks, was unnecessarily rushed and poorly planned.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
• With about five minutes left and the Bucks down by six, Middleton unnecessarily pushed off against Jae Crowder and was whistled for his fifth foul.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2020
• This is a crime against women and birthing parents’ rights and is unnecessarily creating so many health risks.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 29 July 2022
• None feel like they were unnecessarily kicked off the 13-track running order.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• The next steps Around the league, the manner of Friday’s operation came off to some as unnecessarily awkward.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
• Now, the back slap was uncalled for, the language unnecessarily profane.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• That whisky is called Crown Royal Aged 31 Years, an unnecessarily polite way of referring to the fact that this whisky spent more than three decades inside of barrels.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
• The Jazz simply fouled him way too much, and often unnecessarily.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
• Yet many cloud platforms interpret this as a signal to allocate more resources unnecessarily.
  — Luca Maraschi, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025