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
• That seemed unnecessarily strict to me, given the fact that the flight was less than half-full.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Still, Grier feels the rebuild in a good spot, and does not want to unnecessarily rush things.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The text raised her blood pressure and heart rate unnecessarily.
  — Byron McCauley, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2020
• 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
• This move is meant to crack down on apps that request the permission unnecessarily.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2020
• While each route needs convenient stops, too many can unnecessarily slow the trip.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2022
• Put a finger down if you’ve been followed in a store unnecessarily.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 June 2020
• 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
• DeSantis said, however, that boaters have been unnecessarily been put through sobriety tests because of these stops and end up being sober in the end.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
• That becomes unnecessarily difficult with the potential of non-emergency law enforcement action taking place in our classrooms, on the playground, or on our buses.
  — Alex Marrero, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025