How to Use unessential in a Sentence

unessential

adjective
  • 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
  • Many of us who are not essential workers feel unessential, not to mention constrained, helpless, and weak.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 May 2020
  • That’s when unessential parts of the federal government shut down until the impasse is broken.
    — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • What is striking is how unessential to either of these purposes democracy promotion seems to be.
    — Javier Corrales, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • People entering states for essential and unessential travel reasons will need to complete this form.
    — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others didn’t, leaving the workers vulnerable to getting cited for an unessential trip.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The government hasn’t restricted travel to Wuhan but advises against unessential trips.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Some naysayers may dismiss fashion as frivolous or an unessential part of daily life, but for Piersanti, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
    — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Each expert was hesitant about the current pandemic climate in Texas and the potential for increased spread through unessential activities.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • While this innovation was usually dismissed as unessential in previous years, today, brands embrace this change driven by necessity.
    — Abhimanyu Singh, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trips at first conflicted with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance against unessential travel amid the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2021
  • As a result, Canada and the UK have both issued government advisories warning their citizens against unessential travel to the Caribbean island.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • As a result, Canada and the UK have both issued government advisories warning their citizens against unessential travel to the Caribbean island.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Relegated to Marvel’s 1992 annual issues, Citizen Kang initially felt a little unessential.
    — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023

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