Sentence examples for essence may be from inspiring English sources

For Locke, since an essence accounts for the existence and nature of any being, i.e., "Essence may be taken for the very being of anything, whereby it is what it is", it follows that the concepts of real and nominal essences apply outside the realm of metaphysics and natural philosophy as well.

A landmark's essence may be the sum of the blue margaritas that have been drunk there.

I consider it as one of the first securities for popular liberty, in which its very essence may be supposed to reside.

The model of peer knowledge production (Bauwens, 2006; Benkler, 2006; Benkler et al., 2015) which constitutes Wikipedia's essence may be conceived as part of an epistemology and methodology of peer learning (Rheingold, 2014) and peer production (Bauwens, 2006).

Such studies of essence may be conducted by way of imaginative variation of cases, independently of any matter of fact, including whether or not there actually is anything of the ontological kinds distinguished (1913/1962, 51).

Another direction in which to take the thesis that death is not amenable to classical definition is to argue that death is a natural kind whose essence may be obscure.

But the essence, it may be ventured, is that order rests on understanding.

Our spiritual essence, it may be, is selfishness; certainly our art, from Whitman to the Abstract Expressionists, flaunts the naked self with a boldness rarely seen in other national cultures.

So, after clustering with the parameter Distance = 2, all barcode sequences in a given cluster are within a Distance = 2 from at least one other barcode sequence (but not necessarily all other sequences) in the cluster; in essence, it may be said that the original analysis for counting the number of unique barcodes without clustering was performed by clustering with Distance = 0.

If you're having trouble distilling something to its essence, it may be that you don't understand it.

"In essence, banks may be unable to prove that they own the mortgage loans they claim to own".