necessary food
Example Sentences
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On a web page updated on Sept. 10, the agency wrote the “USDA recognizes this is a significant disruption that has left locations without acceptable inventories of necessary food items.”
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024
To reproduce, the wasp needs to find a host that will supply the necessary food for her young.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2021
Over the years, smugglers from Syrian cities such as Palmyra and Al-Dumayr have brought in medicine and necessary food items—rice, flour, olive oil—but have sold them at high prices.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
We’d still have 40% of the population providing us with our necessary food if they had done.
From Forbes • Apr. 4, 2015
The boll weevil prefers squares to bolls and as long as the cotton puts on sufficient squares to furnish it with the necessary food it will not attack many bolls.
From How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory by Alford, G. H.
