doing without

Example Sentences

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Imagine how well the economy would be doing without tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

There’s usually something that one friend can afford that the others can’t, or something that someone wants to do that someone who doesn’t will resent them for doing without them.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025

“To do what he’s doing without your best player for the whole year, that just says a lot,” Lue said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

An order telling the federal officials to stop what they are doing, without any further consequences for those officials, does not.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2024

And these were poor folks too, but they were so proud of us that they didn’t mind doing without some things so’s we could have the bell.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis