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Example sentences for "essential"

Lexicographically close words:
essence; essences; essendo; essent; essentia; essentiality; essentiall; essentially; essentials; essentiellement
  1. It was essential to have a multitude of plates of bread and butter, varied in sorts and plentiful in quantity.

  2. In this section there are a few species combining the essential characters of Diploxylon with important characters of Haploxylon.

  3. It was still essential to placate the wounded anti-slavery sensibilities of the Northern States, and to this end John W.

  4. But it was an erroneous view, because it lacked the essential information necessary to form a correct and solid judgment.

  5. In this work, to achieve success, and to achieve it without sacrifice of essential principle, you can do far more than one like myself, so much younger.

  6. African slavery is essential not only to our prosperity, but to our existence as a people.

  7. The essential character of the transaction impressed itself upon the very form of the judgment, if indeed it may be called at all by that name.

  8. It was a brief document, but contained and expressed all the essential purposes of the conspiracy.

  9. The essential vice of the Roman system was that it had been unable to avoid weakening the spirit of personal independence and crushing out local self-government among the peoples to whom it had been applied.

  10. Of the other two methods war was an essential part.

  11. The work begun by his House of Commons was the same work that has continued to go on without essential interruption down to the days of Cleveland and Gladstone.

  12. Mere fanaticism is sure to aim at changing the constitution of human society in some essential point, to undo the work of evolution, and offer in some indistinctly apprehended fashion to remodel human life.

  13. According to that theory, it was absolutely essential that every one should be taught from early childhood how to read and understand the Bible.

  14. Of all Protestant sects the Quakers went furthest in stripping off from Christianity its non-essential features of doctrine and ceremonial.

  15. It is its morality which places it in a position of such emphatic and essential antagonism to the Old Testament, so that the story of the Fall is the only possible point of connection between the two.

  16. Christianity contains, in fact, a great and essential imperfection in limiting its precepts to man, and in refusing rights to the entire animal world.

  17. The author of Malachi is also deeply interested in the ritual and regards the preservation of its purity as essential to the religious life of the Judean community.

  18. Unfortunately for the cause of Jewish independence, Antigonus lacked the essential qualities of leadership.

  19. The self-denying service of parents is absolutely essential if their children are to attain to the noblest manhood and womanhood.

  20. In order to protect its eastern gateway, the Isthmus of Suez, it was essential that the Ptolemies should control Palestine.

  21. In the broad perspective of history it is clear that both Hellenism and Judaism were essential to the upbuilding and broadening of the human character and ideals.

  22. The steadfastness with which he endures shame and bitter wrongs is the evidence of his ability as a disciple and an essential part in his preparation for his exalted mission.

  23. Alexandria's ancient rivals, Tyre and Sidon, also lay on the borders of Palestine, and it was essential that they be under the control of Egypt, if Alexandria was to remain the mistress of the eastern Mediterranean.

  24. In fact, such illustrations from the masters of Thought were essential to the completion of the purpose which pervades the work.

  25. But still trance is as essential a condition of being as sleep or as waking, having privileges peculiar to itself.

  26. Thus, in the investigation of truth, frank exposition to congenial minds is essential to the earnest seeker.

  27. His arrest was marked by the circumstances of cruelty and cowardice which seem to be essential to the execution of this Law above all others.

  28. In 1765 her House of Representatives unanimously resolved that "there are certain essential Rights .

  29. Law of God and Nature, and are the Common Rights of Mankind, and that the inhabitants of this Province are unalienably entitled to these essential Rights in common with all men, and that no law of Society .

  30. Boilers of the latter kind must all possess certain essential features, whilst of other qualities that are desirable some may not be altogether compatible with the special conditions under which the boilers are to be worked.

  31. When chemicals of any kind are used to soften or purify feed-water it is essential that neither they nor the products they form should have a corrosive effect upon the boiler-plates, &c.

  32. Its essential interest is, therefore, to support civil society, to which it owes everything.

  33. This perpetual inspection is an essential portion of sovereignty, which every religion ought to acknowledge.

  34. After admitting that rivers spring from mountains, and that both of them are essential parts of this great machine, let us beware how we give in to varying and vanishing systems.

  35. The ceremonies of the Church are only essential to civil order, because the State has adopted them.

  36. The sovereigns of Russia and of England preside over religion; the essential unity of power is there preserved.

  37. He asserts, above all, that to enter a country with fifty thousand men, it is essential to economy that a hundred thousand should be raised.

  38. God permitted the primitive Christians to be persuaded of the truth of the oracles attributed to the Sibyls, and left them a few other unimportant errors, which were no essential detriment to their religion.

  39. The true aristocrat I think will have enough grasp, enough steadiness, to be kind and right to every human being and still do the work that ought to be his essential life.

  40. That passion to get all things together into one aristocratic aim, that restraint of purpose, that imperative to focus, which was the structural essential of Benham's spirit, was altogether foreign to her composition.

  41. He suspected even while he obeyed that upward flourish which was his own essential characteristic.

  42. Her personal, stark frankness had been her essential strength.

  43. It intensifies the tragedy of the Reverend Harold Benham's failure that in no essential respect did his school depart from the pattern of all other properly-conducted preparatory schools.

  44. The significant, the essential moments in the life of any one worth consideration are surely these moments when for the first time he faces towards certain broad ideas and certain broad facts.

  45. This is the essential disposition of my mind.

  46. This lordly, this kingly dream became more and more essential to Benham as his life went on.

  47. If a substance so essential to plants as carbonaceous matter cannot be introduced except in a state of solution into their organs, he very justly concludes that other less essential bodies must be in the same case.

  48. In conducting, however, these experiments of electrical transference, there would appear to be one condition essential to their success, viz.

  49. What those essential rights and permanent interests are, on which the future strength and security of England must principally depend, are not so much as alluded to.

  50. The essential thing was that I report the Han plans and resources to the fullest of my ability.

  51. Every imaginable precaution would be taken to make sure that a critically essential device like the pilot gyro assembly would get safely where it belonged.

  52. He hated the people who wanted to smash the pilot gyros because they were essential to the Space Platform.

  53. The pilot gyro was essential to the functioning of the Platform.

  54. If a star photograph was to be made, it was essential that the Platform hold absolutely still while the exposure lasted.

  55. This transport plane was flying to a small town improbably called Bootstrap, carrying one of the most essential devices for the Platform's equipment.

  56. Yet it was done "with essential truth and some effectiveness.

  57. If these fads and fancies on the part of the child are to be avoided, it is essential that we should do nothing to focus his attention on his refusal.

  58. Stripped of all that is not essential we see the problem of the management of children reduced to the interplay between the adult mind and the mind of the receptive suggestible child.

  59. Language took more time, but was essential since not many Traiti spoke Imperial English at all, and even fewer spoke it as well as Arjen and Hovan.

  60. The capacity for further improvement is the essential trait of the best condition now in sight.

  61. The whole point of the economic study of which I have given the briefest outline is that it is practicable to create in complex modern life the most essential condition of this primitive life--its tendency toward justice.

  62. This is an essential feature of the social system we wish for and work for.

  63. Neither do I see how it can do any good to you, since you know not the rules, moral or dietetic, that are essential to its effect.

  64. This was the purport, he now felt sure, of the sentence he had lighted upon; and he took it to refer to the mode of producing something that was essential to the thing to be concocted.

  65. The warm, moist air flows up the mountainside and the essential start is made.

  66. To be sure it preserves its essential characteristics of relative warmth, and inwhirling winds.

  67. He fell back on the theory of an essential inner delicacy behind the occasionally coarse envelope of artistic genius, just as grossness could lurk beneath a gentlemanly refinement.

  68. I was no longer fit for the world; I had lost all relish for the pursuits and pleasures which are so essential to its votaries; I was contented to live and die in obscurity.

  69. The moral is as essential a part of the whole poem as moral consciousness is of man; without it the poem would be without the coherence of human interest which alone can secure for "these shadows of imagination" "poetic faith.

  70. Always his poetry had been the utterance of his essential being.

  71. The essential traits of his later character appeared in his early childhood.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "essential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    austere; axiom; bare; basal; basic; bedrock; born; capital; center; central; chaste; chief; climax; congenital; connate; constituent; constitutional; core; cornerstone; crisis; critical; crucial; crux; demand; desideratum; effective; element; elemental; elementary; elixir; essence; essential; fatal; first; flower; focal; focus; functional; fundamental; gist; gravamen; gut; heart; homely; homespun; homogeneous; hypostasis; imperative; important; indicated; indispensable; indivisible; indwelling; ingrained; inherent; innate; inner; integral; intimate; intrinsic; irreducible; issue; kernel; key; keystone; landmark; literal; main; mandatory; marrow; material; meat; mere; milestone; minimal; monolithic; must; necessaries; necessary; necessity; need; needful; nucleus; obligatory; occasion; organic; original; paramount; pith; pivot; pivotal; plain; point; postulate; preparatory; prerequisite; primal; primary; primitive; principle; pure; quid; quiddity; quintessence; quintessential; radical; real; required; requirement; requisite; requisition; rooted; rudimentary; severe; simple; single; soul; spare; spirit; staple; stark; stipulation; stuff; substance; substantial; substantive; ultimate; unadorned; underlying; undifferentiated; uniform; virtual; vital; want; wanted


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    essential condition; essential constituent; essential element; essential feature; essential oils; essential part; essential parts; essential service; essentially different; essentially necessary