How to Use nonessential in a Sentence

nonessential

adjective
  • All nonessential personnel had to be laid off.
  • Please avoid all nonessential uses of water.
  • But in March, the border was shut to nonessential travel and all that ground to a halt.
    Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But the border has been closed to nonessential travel since March 2020.
    Gene Johnson, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • When the city shut down all nonessential businesses, he was laid off.
    New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The border is set to remain closed to nonessential travel through at least June 21.
    Joe Yogerst, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • As part of the new rules, Canada and the U.S. have closed the border between the two countries to nonessential travel since late March.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The border between the U.S. and Canada has been closed to nonessential travel since last March.
    Paul Vieira, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Madrid and some areas in Spain have ruled out nonessential travel.
    Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The coronavirus pandemic forced nonessential stores across the city to close for months.
    Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Inna spent a moment thinking about a nonessential item to bring.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • The virus increased the risk of death among nonessential workers by only 11 percent.
    NBC News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This is a good time to put off any larger, nonessential purchases.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 June 2022
  • The island's beaches and nonessential shops have been ordered closed.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The Clinic postponed the same types of nonessential surgeries Nov. 13 but resumed them Nov. 23.
    Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Starting Wednesday, all nonessential stores, schools, and hairdressers will have to close.
    Harold Maass, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
  • In Germany, even as many nonessential stores opened last week for the first time in months, health officials called for caution.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The portion of the document viewed by The Hill does not list agencies that are considered nonessential.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
  • With Italy banning nonessential travel from the U.S., the Rileys would need to secure passports and visas to allow them in.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Land borders will also reopen early next month for nonessential travel, the first time that will be the case in 19 months.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Come next week, people will be allowed to return to gyms, nonessential shops, and pub gardens.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The border between Canada and the U.S. remains closed to all nonessential travel.
    Rob Gillies, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
  • Why are workers being called back for nonessential work in the middle of a pandemic?
    The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The city's ban on nonessential travel is on hold after a judge ruled in favor of Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Brussels also wants to end the EU's safe-country list for nonessential travel.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Get real about your spending The goal of a low-buy or no-buy challenge is to break the cycle of overconsumption by cutting nonessential spending for a set period.
    Nerdwallet, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2025

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