How to Use dispensable in a Sentence

dispensable

adjective

• Do you consider any of the staff to be dispensable?
• Computers have made typewriters dispensable.
• All that equipment had seemed so heavy and so dispensable.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2020
• The T cells wipe out all of the patient’s B cells — normal as well as cancerous — but B cells are dispensable.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• One of many tragic results of the Trump era may be to make America dispensable again.
  — Joshua Geltzer and Jon Finer, CNN, 10 June 2017
• Added to this, central banks seem to be favourably inclined towards big bank bailouts, while small banks are seen as dispensable.
  — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• No company sets out to be a place that treats people as dispensable.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The modern running back is seen as the most dispensable of commodities by NFL coaches and scouts.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
• And when things have gone south for the Cavs in recent years, Love's name pops up in trade rumors and the narrative of him being dispensable cranks up again.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 20 July 2017
• Time and time again we are reminded whose lives are valued and whose are deemed dispensable in this country.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• For too long, these vendors have been marginalized, treated as dispensable, come-and-go providers of goods and services who can be hired in good times and fired in bad times.
  — Christian Schuh, Fortune, 27 June 2022
• How the red twos can be either dispensable or invaluable, depending on what city the game is being played in.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• An online boyfriend is a viable and dispensable source of attention.
  — Kira Homsher, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2023
• Growing up in a family that didn’t have much dispensable income, when our pets got sick, a trip to the vet wasn’t an automatic response.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
• No one blinks at this, as businesses see contract workers as dispensable.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• In fact, it’s been suggested that the regime regarded him as dispensable, giving him the unenviable job of holding down the fort while others escaped.
  — Leander Kahney, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2003
• Defender Aleix Vidal, like Gomes, finds himself at the club until the end of the season, despite being considered dispensable by Valverde.
  — SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• That could mean that the Croatian is considered dispensable, and United may be a favourable destination.
  — SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• There is nothing like a deadly pandemic to remind us that these qualities are not dispensable in a president.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• These insecticide baits come in small plastic containers, called bait stations, or as a dispensable gel.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2020
• The instrument for getting rid of the dispensable farmers has been uncontrolled production.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2018
• This dreamy oil is solid up to a temperature of 88 degrees Farenheit and comes in an easily dispensable and (recyclable) aluminum tube.
  — Bea McMonagle, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• The statement is uttered primarily in contexts in which Black lives clearly do not matter, otherwise they would not be treated as so dispensable.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• Formed more than 20 years ago, Queens of the Stone Age is one of the few rock bands with a substantial following that’s managed to remain interesting and vital during a span in which rock has grown increasingly dull and dispensable.
  — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 14 Oct. 2017
• This two-tier labor system allows companies to boast generous benefits on the one hand and to treat contractors as dispensable labor on the other.
  — Anna Furman, Wired, 23 June 2020
• Meanwhile, unboxing videos give our proxy hands access to a simulation of endless dispensable income, as the unboxer touches and feels the hottest new action figures and toy sets.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• Replacing Patterson will send a message to millions of Southern Baptist women that their bodies are not dispensable and that their valid concerns have been heard loudly and clearly.
  — Jonathan Merritt, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• In some cases, antibodies might be almost entirely dispensable, as long as there are other immune defenders to fill the void.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
• Amid the current, quite serious concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-tenth of 1 percent of a single year’s budget would solve our problems.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
• Meanwhile Michel et al report that the left temporal pole is dispensable for mentalizing as well, in a single case report in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience .
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2013

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