feel the necessity for
Example Sentences
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The fleet slackened their fire towards night, as the guns of the enemy became silenced, and the ships began to feel the necessity for husbanding their ammunition.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Osler, Edward
Men who go through a prodigious amount of work feel the necessity for varying it.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
Perhaps," I suggested as gently as I could, "it is just because Mrs. Bradley is neither a thief nor a drunkard nor worse, dear Miss Jencks, that she does not feel the necessity for weeping.
From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
The only way left was to encourage Elsie and make her feel the necessity for instant action.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant
She would have given anything in the world to be, as those children were, un- concerned at the meaning of their words, because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
