How to Use nonessential in a Sentence

nonessential

adjective

• All nonessential personnel had to be laid off.
• Please avoid all nonessential uses of water.
• Inna spent a moment thinking about a nonessential item to bring.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• This is a good time to put off any larger, nonessential purchases.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Tianjin, like in many cities, residents have been ordered not to leave for nonessential travel.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Over time, the Voyager team has commanded the probes to turn off instrument heaters and other nonessential systems.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 May 2023
• The stay-at-home order took effect just a few days later, on March 23, closing nonessential businesses in Ohio.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2022
• City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County offices and nonessential services will be closed.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 29 June 2022
• Losey said people are saving less each month and buying fewer nonessential things.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Avoid using fire pits or fireplaces for nonessential home heating.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses to close statewide and had shut down schools.
  — Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2021
• Water hawks across the region are warning residents that now is not the time to be using too much water on nonessential landscapes, like a lawn.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
• Meanwhile, a consumer at the same drugstore might pay a sales tax on Tampax or Huggies, which are considered nonessential items.
  — Leticia Miranda, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• It’s estimated that there could be a 2 percent decrease in consumer spending on nonessential goods but not enough to hurt the economy in the long run.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Other polls have shown people cutting back on dining out, takeouts and nonessential food.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• Companies are reducing the pace of new hires, and consumers are spending less on nonessential goods amid rising fuel and food costs.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• Although the rest of the state remains open to visitors, officials have asked nonresidents to leave Maui and urged others to avoid nonessential trips to the island.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• In New Mexico, schools and nonessential government services were closed in some areas Thursday because of the icy roads.
  — Kathleen Foody, Jill Bleed, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Gas rationing had little to do with a shortage; what the United States armed forces needed was rubber, so nonessential rubber usage (like car tires) had to go.
  — al, 11 Mar. 2022
• In the midst of the Great Recession, people cut back on nonessential holiday spending, and end-of-the-year purchases took a significant hit.
  — Ella Koeze, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• An avalanche blocked a state route that connects Tahoe City to some ski resorts in Olympic Valley and authorities urged motorists to avoid nonessential travel.
  — Manuel Valdes, ajc, 28 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024