needful
Example Sentences
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The power to change the Kennedy Center marquee resides with Congress, which has authority to “make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”
His grief-stricken family has sought explanations as to how doctors could have found their loved one competent to “choose” death much less needful of it.
From Washington Post
Many will be young men and women who will risk prison, or worse, to deliver the facts to a needful public — even if some of the public don't want to hear it.
From Salon
I am grateful to the composers, lyricists, performers and musicians for bringing their wonderful, inspiring gift of music to a needful world.
From Washington Post
He is doing the needful to train the boy for recruitment into his Regiment.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
