necessary food

Example Sentences

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Should you pay for a prescription or an ER visit or much-needed new glasses or buy the necessary food for the next two or three days?

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2023

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

For several months the little dog watched by the remains of his beloved master, only leaving them, it is supposed, to obtain necessary food.

From Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Butterworth, Hezekiah