How to Use inessential in a Sentence

inessential

adjective
  • The truth is, Jackson has been inessential for quite some time.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 22 June 2017
  • But for good and ill, all the Marxists are inessential workers, too.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 28 June 2021
  • Everything inessential has been exiled or at least tucked away.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • Vegetable dishes are a welcome break to the meat-and-carb parade, but often inessential.
    — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Won’t someone, even an inessential young reporter played by Myha’la, poke into the alleged scam?
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • As inessential as the film was, the song felt like a comfortable fit alongside the group’s best material.
    — William Earl, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The group also did not say how many patents had been submitted for evaluation only to be deemed inessential.
    — Peter Bright, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2011
  • The season ended, the credits rolled, and I was tossed into the abyss of inessential programming.
    — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Manet has eschewed furniture and everything else inessential.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This was an Oscars where a moment tailor-made for a professional wrestling match somehow made the clothes feel inessential.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The arches themselves, strange, impressive, grotesque, form but a small and inessential part of the general beauty of this country.
    — Douglas Brinkley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • For whatever reason, neutrophils have a history of being slandered as inessential grunts.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
  • Even so, what led up to the album is wholly inessential to absorb the shimmering, lovely and chilling music that resulted.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Everything indirect, inessential and, above all, historical has been stripped away.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • For the casual fan, this nearly 100-minute tranche of odds and ends will likely be disorienting and inessential.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • Running a taxing three hours, this first part of a quartet of films is littered with inessential scenes and characters that go nowhere, taking far too long to connect its messy plot threads.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • The Hawkeye finale features plenty of cliffhangers for the future, making a post-credits scene inessential.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Dec. 2021
  • In those early days of Meta’s evolution, Ott learned to pour all of his time into what matters most—and that doesn’t include inessential meetings.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • As an expansion of the Star Wars saga, Solo is absolutely inessential.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • There are very few Marvel Cinematic Universe projects that can be simply dismissed as bad or inessential.
    — Joshua Axelrod, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • There are a few stories in this ample collection that seem inessential, and Shriver’s fondness for abundance leaves a couple feeling a bit overstuffed.
    — Stephen McCauley, New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • In March, when Cuomo ordered inessential projects to shut down, the workers had been about to laminate the dealership’s walls with Sheetrock.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 29 May 2020
  • But all this presents itself as ambient knowledge, inessential to the archetypal drama that will unfold between strong and weak children, in a town that could be anywhere or nowhere.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Though somewhat inessential, Far From Home is a fun diversion with a killer mid-credits sequence that beautifully sets up the third film.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Just ask any of the thousands of tech workers who were recently laid off because their CEO’s pet pivot-to-X project was deemed inessential.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In Ozon’s loving, diverting but inessential homage, everything is real except the bitter, glycerine tears.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
  • We are told again and again to put the most important point up front, instructed multiple times that headlines should have six words or less, and told ad infinitum that readers are too busy today to read inessential writing.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Long before, Mull had concluded that accepting the loss of inessential things was an elemental lesson that his present life, his life since entering the tesseractic house, had to teach him.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Part of that is due to the extreme compression of her poems, which strip away everything inessential, greatly magnifying the potency of each individual word.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • While Arts & Venues defers inessential maintenance to route money toward operations, staffers have devised a four-point plan to herald the return of public arts.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 28 June 2020

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