inessential

Example Sentences

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The commentary was no less inessential with the addition of Jimmy Fallon, who also has a show on NBC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024

You might even define a great artist by the ability to pitilessly remove the inessential, no matter how clever the sentence or brilliant the movement composition.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2023

MAP, deemed inessential, was cut, and the program dissolved within a few years.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

It urged residents in the area to avoid inessential outings and to use caution against mudslides, flooding and thunderstorms.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

The apostle's purpose in praising his co-laborers is to prevent them from despising the external Word as something inessential to them, or well enough known.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas