needful
Example Sentences
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The power to change the Kennedy Center marquee resides with Congress, which has authority to “make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Many will be young men and women who will risk prison, or worse, to deliver the facts to a needful public — even if some of the public don't want to hear it.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2022
He is doing the needful to train the boy for recruitment into his Regiment.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2022
Thicken the Baby Yoda gravy, if needful, with rice flour or with flour and Bantha butter, and serve plenty of Kowakian monkey-lizard forcemeat balls round the head.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2019
But it was her vaporishness that made her more needful of defense.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
