doing without

Example Sentences

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You can probably show off what you’re thinking of doing without having to pay a ton of people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s usually something that one friend can afford that the others can’t, or something that someone wants to do that someone who doesn’t will resent them for doing without them.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025

An order telling the federal officials to stop what they are doing, without any further consequences for those officials, does not.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2024

Charter Chief Executive Christopher Winfrey has threatened to “move on” from providing TV service at all, or perhaps permanently doing without Disney’s channels entirely.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

There is a certain stringency to life, a willful doing without.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri