How to Use unessential in a Sentence
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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
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Many of us who are not essential workers feel unessential, not to mention constrained, helpless, and weak.
—Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 May 2020
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That’s when unessential parts of the federal government shut down until the impasse is broken.
—John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
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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
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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
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The government hasn’t restricted travel to Wuhan but advises against unessential trips.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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Others didn’t, leaving the workers vulnerable to getting cited for an unessential trip.
—Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 24 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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