How to Use unnecessary in a Sentence

unnecessary

adjective

• In this city, owning a car is unnecessary.
• Let's not take any unnecessary risks.
• Is Sanders a corporate shill, forcing us all to still work 24 unnecessary hours per week to feed the greed of the C-suite?
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
• Simply pull the fork off the nail and voilà: A hung frame—minus the unnecessary contorting.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 29 Aug. 2023
• The finished structure is so strong that steel roll bars are unnecessary.
  — Ray Hutton, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• Warren-Darby said the turmoil at City Hall is unnecessary when the mayor and the council are all Democrats.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• Even with 18 tools, nothing seemed unnecessary or out of place.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• My brain knew that every movement of my left foot on the clutch and left hand on the shifter (the concept is right-hand drive) was completely unnecessary.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
• That’s a lot of unnecessary misery, all caused by the perilous pursuit of profit.
  — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Parking is available, but a car is unnecessary, and the Ginza-Itchome Station is about a two-minute walk away.
  — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2024
• And while the intent may be positive, the approach can cause unnecessary spirals of fear, guilt, or doubt.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2023
• Cook's father, Jeramy Cook, said the YouTubers were just trying to have fun and the shooting was unnecessary.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
• But to wipe them out wholesale — unnecessary, even petty or mean, I’m tempted to say.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
• The safety leads the NFL in penalties for unnecessary roughness, adding two to his total Monday.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
• After all these years, Michael has built the Housewives’ trust, minimizing any unnecessary back-and-forth over glam—for the most part.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 1 Feb. 2024
• Five interns nearly on the chopping block after the unnecessary death of a patient.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• Has anybody heard a more unnecessary idea than the NBA’s plan to play an in-season tournament next season?
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Too much unnecessary fertilizer can injure, burn and kill a plant and mess up our soil.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The whole point of AC/DC, which formed in 1973, is that the members stripped away everything unnecessary from rock music and found enough left to explore for half a century.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The council said those ideas would be expensive, unnecessary and too much of a change for what have long been friendly neighborhood events.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
• The stainless-steel handle cuts unnecessary weight with its open design.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• When broken down, this means that about 22 percent of our time, besides sleeping, on unnecessary tasks.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
• Neither wants to have a legal obligation to fight for the other and be dragged into an unnecessary conflict.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
• By 2007, any radome on the original Dulles tower was unnecessary.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• That means the front grille, a classic component of petrol cars, is entirely unnecessary.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The holiday season can create unnecessary stress due to the endless dishes that must be prepared for one meal.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2023
• Factor in the ecological impact, plus all the unnecessary stress of air travel, and a summer road trip through the West is sounding more appealing by the minute.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 21 July 2023
• The unspeakable has become the unnecessary to be spoken.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• But Zoox has ditched the steering wheel and brake pedal, claiming those features are unnecessary when there’s no human driver.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• The front end is identical to the regular Demon, except that its small tire made flared front fenders unnecessary.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024