necessities

Example Sentences

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For some, that includes cutting back on other necessities such as food, budgeting strictly to afford half a tank of gas a week and rethinking side hustles such as food delivery service.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Ideal sites needed reliable access to water and other necessities, along with landscape features that could help drive and contain bison herds.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

To adjust, most Americans turned to credit cards, fewer retail visits and a focus on necessities.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

The routines Banda's residents have developed - starting work before sunrise, retreating indoors at midday, seeking shade wherever they can find it - are increasingly becoming necessities rather than adaptations.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

They’d arrived in Pittsburgh empty-handed and they didn’t buy much beyond the necessities in their time in the city, all their money going toward the possibility of having their own place.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland