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How can you use “essence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In essence, NATO held Serb forces at a safe distance with one arm while pummeling them with the other.
GS tried to reveal the essence of communication by stringing together heavy words without the punctuation, connectives, adjectives, adverbs, and allusions we are accustomed to.
Of course Starr dropped the B-listers: Now he has distilled his case to the essence, focusing on the only Clinton scandal that Americans understand, and the only one where he might find a clear, explicable high crime.
There, in remarkably few words, the Times gets to the essence of a complicated story.
In essence, what happened was that a few brokerage houses downgraded Disney's stock from "buy" to "accumulate" or to "hold" or to "sell immediately."