How to Use necessarily in a Sentence

necessarily

adverb

• This of course is not a sound way to make soup, but sometimes the chef doesn’t have the time or resources to do necessarily things in the best of ways.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• But this wasn’t the necessarily the time for this kind of music.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Most of the pledges are as made; some have necessarily changed as the circumstances have changed.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 11 June 2023
• But one of them necessarily leads to a bit more job-hopping.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Image At the same time, even that is no longer necessarily enough.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• But now the question is going to be, does that necessarily meet the moment?
  — CBS News, 11 June 2023
• And yet, Chang doesn’t believe brett to necessarily be a flaw.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2024
• Not to the Chiefs fans necessarily, not scary but awful.
  — Sidney Steele, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• That doesn't mean the claimant is necessarily the winner just yet.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• And learning how to be the one to initiate those things without sort of the help of her parents, necessarily.
  — Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 14 July 2023
• That doesn’t mean people on Medicare will necessarily see price drops of 25% to 50%, though.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 25 Oct. 2023
• Mukherjee: The canon’s necessarily backward-looking because some time must have passed for a book to have made it in.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Not all of the cancelations were necessarily due to the Max 9 crisis.
  — Alexandra Olson, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2024
• Couples are joint hosts in a way that roommates may not be, necessarily.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• The other is welcoming to children of all ages and abilities without the need to necessarily leave the ground.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• And the authors don't urge the Fed necessarily to hold off on further rate increases or move quickly to cut rates.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• The necessarily tall rear fascia is nicely broken up by four oval taillights near the top and an array of slots near the bottom.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• None of this necessarily means his hold on power is in danger.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• These are strikes that aren't intended, necessarily to win the day.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Neither is necessarily the most important part of their film, but both act as foils to show the dedication of the leads.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• Cobra Kai fans, Ralph Macchio is back in the dojo ... just not in the way people necessarily expect.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 May 2023
• Still, it’s got enough panache (to use Dick’s favorite word) to charm viewers for a little while — if not necessarily to keep them invested for the long haul.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• There is nothing necessarily bad about going 4-5 on a West Coast road trip.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• This doesn’t mean Meta should necessarily take down all altered posts.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 5 Feb. 2024
• Not liberty, necessarily, but the thrill of a job that requires walking around woods with a chainsaw.
  — ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
• Hamilton: Some of these groups don’t even necessarily form from a single tragic event.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• But save the occasional interview with a journalist or a brand event, Sézalory is not the sort of founder who necessarily wants to be the out-and-about face of Sézane.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 May 2023
• Caleb Lin: Honestly, there wasn’t any one thing that necessarily spurred it.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• None of this is necessarily related to why Mr. Altman was pushed out.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• And so not everyone can necessarily afford to live in the communities that have the best school districts.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024