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Example sentences for "indispensable"

Lexicographically close words:
indiscretions; indiscriminate; indiscriminately; indiscriminating; indispensability; indispensableness; indispensables; indispensably; indispensible; indispensibly
  1. Thus we have a second, and even more important, necessity for a neighbouring stream, which often, in conjunction with the indispensable fire, serves the excisemen to locate these stills.

  2. An indispensable part of the farm equipment!

  3. His name we believe to have been derived from that indispensable portion of his frame.

  4. In order to colonize the country originally, it was necessary to select such portions as were, by their proximity to the sea, indispensable to the perfection of the plan.

  5. These Indians must have a mill; besides, it would reflect on the present administration of Indian affairs, to turn them over to the world without that indispensable appurtenance of civilization.

  6. But mills are indispensable civilizers, and must be built.

  7. Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

  8. A hundred things which the anxious care of his mother and sister deemed indispensable for his comfort, Nicholas insisted on leaving behind, as they might prove of some after use, or might be convertible into money if occasion required.

  9. No advantage can be reaped from this deed, whatever it is, save by the girl herself, or her husband; and the possession of this deed by one or other of them is indispensable to any advantage being gained.

  10. For a modern army of the size operating around Bagdad could not have been safely brought across the desert with all the supplies and ammunition indispensable for its continued existence.

  11. There were many festivities, and he was looked upon as an indispensable guest in all.

  12. In the first place, though to be known at least by reputation was an indispensable condition of being present, he brought different classes together, and this, at least for once, stimulates and gratifies curiosity.

  13. It was simply furnished enough, containing but two beds, a deal table, four chairs, and the indispensable stove, which kept the room warm and comfortable.

  14. At nine o'clock waiters appeared with trays containing the indispensable beginning of all Russian feasts.

  15. This indispensable information must still be furnished by common opinion.

  16. Supported on these indispensable habits, mankind always carries an indefinite load of misery and vice.

  17. If it be false, reason is itself misleading, since a hypothesis indispensable in the intellectual mastery of experience is a false hypothesis and the detail of experience has no substructure.

  18. But what else shall his faith rest in except in what the necessary forms of his perception present to him and what the indispensable categories of his understanding help him to conceive?

  19. Reason is indeed not indispensable to life, nor needful if living anyhow be the sole and indeterminate aim; as the existence of animals and of most men sufficiently proves.

  20. At the other extreme lies that ultimate form of prose which we see in mathematical reasoning or in a telegraphic style, where absolutely nothing is rhetorical and speech is denuded of every feature not indispensable to its symbolic rôle.

  21. These prejudices are a drag on progress, moral no less than material; and the sensitive conservatism that fears they may be indispensable is entangled in a pathetic delusion.

  22. These important factors in whatever exists are covered by the term matter and give it a serious and indispensable rôle in describing and feeling the world.

  23. The first among these, underlying all arts and philosophies alike, is the indispensable conception of permanent external objects, forming in their congeries, shifts, and secret animation the system and life of nature.

  24. Blind courage is an animal virtue indispensable in a world full of dangers and evils where a certain insensibility and dash are requisite to skirt the precipice without vertigo.

  25. In human consciousness the indispensable is in inverse ratio to the demonstrable.

  26. Finitude is the indispensable condition of unselfishness as well as of selfishness, and of speculative vision no less than of hypothetical knowledge.

  27. Turmeric, for instance, is a sacred plant and indispensable at every wedding; but those who grow turmeric always incur a certain stigma and loss in social position.

  28. The Lohar is indispensable to the village economy, and the caste is found over the whole rural area of the Province.

  29. On this account cheapness is an indispensable quality in pottery, and there is no opening for the Kumhar to improve his art.

  30. These are usually boiled and then mixed into a salad with linseed or sesamum oil and flavoured with salt or powdered chillies, these last being the Kunbi's indispensable condiment.

  31. These are an indispensable adjunct to the domestic life of the Hindu woman; for the glass bangle is not worn for personal ornament, but as the badge of the matrimonial state, like the wedding-ring in Europe.

  32. This precaution was considered to be indispensable as a defence against the Indians.

  33. One thing, however, was still lacking, indispensable to a person about to engage on an expedition of this description; I mean a servant to attend me.

  34. Such were the premises to which, after having provided myself with a few indispensable articles of furniture, I now retreated with Antonio and my two horses.

  35. As the sluggish current was the only clue to lead them through this ambiguous tract of land and water, it was deemed indispensable to keep to the channel at all hazards as it meandered through the marshes.

  36. Plain succeeded plain over a dreary expanse of interminable country, redeemed only by a series of parallel watercourses, which afforded a sufficient supply of that indispensable element.

  37. Unfortunately the life and soul of the expedition, now more than ever indispensable to its success, here met with a disabling accident from a stake.

  38. There are two indispensable economic conditions of qualitative individual self-expression.

  39. He immediately began the salutary and indispensable work of nationalizing the reform movement.

  40. Some kind of quick transportation across country was, consequently, an indispensable condition of the national organization of American industry and commerce.

  41. The railroads themselves are, perhaps, the most perfect illustration of the profits which accrue in a rapidly growing country from the possession of certain advantages in supplying to the public an indispensable service.

  42. Hence, in the foregoing account of a possible democratic fulfillment, attention has been concentrated on that indispensable phase of the work which can be attained by conscious means.

  43. The freedom of intercourse and the consistency of feeling which they succeeded in attaining is an indispensable characteristic of a democratic society.

  44. Its habits and traditions of historical association constitute an indispensable bond; but they do not constitute the only bond.

  45. The distance, however, of some of them and indispensable previous arrangements may have retarded its commencement in some of its parts.

  46. The moment our peace was threatened I deemed it indispensable to secure a greater provision of those articles of military stores with which our magazines were not sufficiently furnished.

  47. But in this awful moment of the danger of the church, their vow was superseded by a more sublime and indispensable duty.

  48. When Justinian ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task.

  49. In a private citizen, our judgment seldom expects an accurate scrutiny into his fortune and expense; and in a steward of the public treasure, frugality is always a virtue, and the increase of taxes too often an indispensable duty.

  50. Before I can take the field, I must receive an adequate supply of light and heavy armed troops; and it is only with ready money that you can procure the indispensable aid of a powerful body of the cavalry of the Huns.

  51. Among the Indians the men never work: the women undertake the purchases, the household duties, and the preparation for everything that is indispensable for existence.

  52. The result is a volume as helpful as it is indispensable to the scholar.

  53. These examples show clearly that it would be incorrect to treat physiological consanguinity as a constant and indispensable constituent of parental kinship.

  54. The woman's share of work harder, more important and indispensable than the man's (pp.

  55. In conclusion, his lordship entreated the house to pass this bill, which had been introduced in redemption of the pledge given by government in the last session, and formed an indispensable preliminary to any undertaking upon a greater: scale.

  56. Soult, as before seen, moved towards the frontiers of Portugal; but deemed it indispensable to reduce Olivenza and Badajoz, before he crossed them, lest he should leave a Spanish garrison in his rear.

  57. The French emperor, finding that the English alliance had again become indispensable to him, silenced the aspersers of his ally, or directed the same journals to uphold the alliance they had so bitterly and pertinaciously decried.

  58. Sir Robert Peel said that he would have preferred a declaratory resolution, it appearing to him that the co-operation of the colonial legislative was indispensable to tire success of the measure.

  59. The skilful renegade shared with the old Turkish muchirs, feriks, and pashas, all the corruption of those classes, and all their hatred to foreigners, even although indispensable allies.

  60. Lydia considered that her mother was stingy, and that finery was indispensable while she was husband-hunting.

  61. I mention this because a carriage or conveyance of some sort is the necessary of necessaries here--as indispensable as a pair of boots would be in England.

  62. One, at least, of the indispensable conditions of the development of urban life is fully realized in the district of Lake Nahuel Huapi and the Limay.

  63. Sheep do not get on well in the moist zone, where the rains have washed out the soil and carried away the salts which seem to be indispensable to the sheep.

  64. Thus we have two of the indispensable requisites--a constant force and a channel which conveys it from place to place.

  65. Thus plants and animals are indispensable to the preservation of each other's life.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indispensable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    basic; bedrock; central; demand; desideratum; essence; essential; focal; fundamental; imperative; indicated; indispensable; irreducible; mandatory; material; must; necessaries; necessary; necessity; need; needful; obligatory; occasion; prerequisite; required; requirement; requisite; requisition; staple; substantive; underlying; vital; want; wanted


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    indispensable condition; indispensable part