How to Use nonessential in a Sentence

nonessential

adjective

• All nonessential personnel had to be laid off.
• Please avoid all nonessential uses of water.
• But the border has been closed to nonessential travel since March 2020.
  — Gene Johnson, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• When the city shut down all nonessential businesses, he was laid off.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• The border is set to remain closed to nonessential travel through at least June 21.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 16 June 2021
• The border between the U.S. and Canada has been closed to nonessential travel since last March.
  — Paul Vieira, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• The coronavirus pandemic forced nonessential stores across the city to close for months.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Inna spent a moment thinking about a nonessential item to bring.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The virus increased the risk of death among nonessential workers by only 11 percent.
  — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2021
• This is a good time to put off any larger, nonessential purchases.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 June 2022
• The island's beaches and nonessential shops have been ordered closed.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2021
• In Germany, even as many nonessential stores opened last week for the first time in months, health officials called for caution.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• Finally, there’s a low power mode, like the iPhone’s, that shuts off nonessential features and extends the watch’s battery life to up to 36 hours.
  — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• Land borders will also reopen early next month for nonessential travel, the first time that will be the case in 19 months.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Come next week, people will be allowed to return to gyms, nonessential shops, and pub gardens.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
• The border between Canada and the U.S. remains closed to all nonessential travel.
  — Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
• Why are workers being called back for nonessential work in the middle of a pandemic?
  — The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
• The mine continued to produce gold until 1943, when it was deemed nonessential to the World War II effort and ordered to shut down.
  — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Brussels also wants to end the EU's safe-country list for nonessential travel.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
• Some 21% of the people who are in the paycheck-to-paycheck situation say nonessential spending is to blame.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• But when the pandemic forced nonessential businesses to close in mid-March 2020, Stack locked her D.C. studio and let the lease expire.
  — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The United States told its nonessential staff and their family members at the Shanghai consulate to leave.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Officials asked residents to avoid all nonessential travel during the peak of the storm.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• One is to drop all nonessential activities and just read my little brains out.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Kalach’s main goal was to dispense with anything nonessential to resting, reading or staring at the ocean.
  — Suleman Anaya Fabian Martinez, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Canada reopened its borders to nonessential travel from the U.S. this month.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• The agency also says not to burn leaves or yard clippings and to avoid using fireplaces or fire pits for nonessential reasons.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 June 2022
• Sales have weakened this year as consumers pare back on purchases of nonessential items.
  — Ruth Simon, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• The deadline at that time was September 30, and without a compromise, the government would have shut down, meaning that all nonessential government functions would have stopped.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• While consumers have been pulling back on nonessential items (leading to soft sales at chains like Target, Macy’s, and Kohl’s), Walmart has been handily outperforming those rivals this year.
  — Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2025