How to Use indispensable in a Sentence
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Mitchell has been the indispensable scorer on the East’s best team.
—Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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In short, Alexa isn’t an indispensable part of our lives.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
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Whether on the court or in the depths of the sea, precision is key—and endurance indispensable.
—Leena Kim, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022
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Pippen is one of the great two-way wings of all time and an indispensable piece to six championships.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
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Venetian loafer is one of the indispensable styles of tuxedo shoes.
—Maverick Li, Men's Health, 1 Dec. 2022
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Though Latin was a sure form of torture for the young Briton, English was indispensable.
—Tod Worner, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
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Warts and all, the U.S. is still an indispensable nation.
—William Falk, The Week, 4 Sep. 2021
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Connaughton has been an indispensable and most durable members of the Bucks since signing as a free agent at the start of the 2018 season.
—Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2022
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For the step corners, a miter saw proved indispensable.
—Katie Leporte, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2021
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Here are 10 acts not to miss, with some inside dope on the indispensable side players.
—Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
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The first challenge, at this point, is that the state Department of Transportation, indispensable to the project, has yet to sign off on it.
—Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
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The pro-life movement and its allies are doing a lot of indispensable policy work now in the wake of Dobbs.
—Benjamin Watson, National Review, 12 May 2024
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That is why a free marketplace of ideas is indispensable to the discovery of truth.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
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The plan, Force Design 2030, aims to make the Corps an indispensable tool in America’s toolbox.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
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So grab a few of these indispensable glass vessels and get going.
—Blair Donovan, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
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The message can be so powerful that some say Rush and his church felt indispensable to their lives and safety.
—Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
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In fact, one of the most indispensable devices in your home can also be one of the most vulnerable.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
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Tongs are indispensable for getting the back log into just the right position to burn all night.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
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Time is the indispensable basis of friendship, as well as of workouts.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
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Vero cells have at times been indispensable to the study of coronaviruses.
—Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
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As Lincoln understood, the work of democracy at home is indispensable to the work of peace abroad.
—Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
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As de Gaulle famously said, though, the graveyards are full of indispensable men.
—The Editors, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024
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In a way, Nvidia is adept at positioning itself as the indispensable supplier of chips for the tech hype of the moment.
—Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 1 June 2023
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Though not a great way to heat a whole home, a portable heater is indispensable for a late-evening movie night, a workbench in a chilly garage, or the home’s odd corners that refuse to heat.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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By the last few months of the conflict in 1918, Yardley’s agency was indispensable to the American war effort.
—Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
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His next challenge is to make his voice indispensable until November—and to set the stage for what follows.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
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My bookshelves are laden with Hollywood memoirs that run the gamut from indispensable to comic to, frankly, a pack of lies.
—Farran Smith Nehme, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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The original list had some indispensable items on it, like a compass, matches, knife, and food.
—Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
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Her reporting ahead of the 2024 election and in the early days of the new administration has provided audiences with an indispensable perspective at a key moment in American politics.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
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Our graphene tattoos were indispensable for these model-training experiments.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
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