Sentence examples for household essential from inspiring English sources

The months spent trying to find a way to make cellophane sticky was, according to one 3M employee, one of the most discouraging periods in the company's history – but the product would become a household essential.

The majority of tenants had cut back on food, utilities and other household essentials.

While comparable-store sales in food and household essentials rose, apparel and accessories sales were flat for the month.

A July survey by TNS Retail Forward, of Columbus, Ohio, found that 20percentt of shoppers have changed where they buy groceries and household essentials because of the economy.

Mrs. Hodges, who receives counseling four times a month, said her $640 Supplemental Security Income check covers the family's household essentials.

Meanwhile, shelves above the freezers are piled high with tempting deals on biscuits, soft drinks and household essentials such as toilet roll.

All manner of drinks and food are on ramshackle display, sharing shelf space with random household essentials, like old safety razor blades.

It was around then that Bolt decided to open his grocery store, which is stocked with a few baskets of yams and plantains and some household essentials.

Recession has meant good times for the 100-yen shops, which trade in cheap knick-knacks, household essentials and sometimes food.

Surgical teams and medicines will be laid on to help up to 5,000 wounded, as well as food and household essentials for almost 690,000.

Four-fifths of claimants told researchers they were finding it "very" or "fairly" difficult to meet the shortfalls, and many said they would continue to spend less on household essentials over the next 12 months.