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Example sentences for: essentials

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

While the host tribe’s houses were emptied of everything except bare essentials, the guests would depart knowing that in a year or two they would have to reciprocate if they were not to lose face.
But he wrote in the Amman daily al-Ra'i that the Arabs have learned from bitter experience that Labor and Likud agree on essentials, share the same expansionist and hegemonic agenda, and differ only in style.
Also books, chocolates, and other essentials of life.
The CPI averages costs for "thousands of goods and services," and most essentials (food, gas, cars) are fairly cheap.
An item reports that an unidentified major cable network is negotiating to air Bare Essentials News --a nightly national news program featuring anchors in bathing suits.