Sentence examples for indispensable yet from inspiring English sources

Fowler worked part time at the National Tennis Center as a teenager, and after becoming a full-time manager at a retail store, she began taking two weeks off each year to return to Flushing and endure the late-summer heat that comes with the indispensable, yet anonymous, role of ballgirl.

Good kitchen scissors are indispensable, yet scissors get damaged and lost, and kitchen scissors are often chosen as an afterthought.

Guards are indispensable, yet they are easy to overlook, and somewhat interchangeable.

NATO will not be able to do much of this; if anything, the EU has a bigger role.The authors argue that NATO is "indispensable yet insufficient" for dealing with global problems.

Again, this is fascinating, and teachable but not explicity taught by Rosetta Stone.Perhaps the most persistent little puzzle in Rosetta Stone Mandarin is the presence of indispensable yet inscrutable little words all over the place.

James Segrest and Mark Hoffman's indispensable yet frustrating new biography, "Moanin' at Midnight," quotes an interview in which he said: "You don't need no book learnin'.... Common sense, that's all a man needs".

They are indispensable, and yet are the most socially marginalised group of workers in China.

In high school athletics, student assistants and team managers are invisible yet indispensable.

It's a mysterious, slippery thing, of equivocal value — even damaging to the innocent one — and yet indispensable somehow, to the perpetuation of value in the human community.

And they helped inspire the work of a chemist who has just published a welcome treatise on the smelly yet indispensable allium family.

Curious education policy: the literacy rate in schools continues to decline, yet indispensable librarians are the first to get pink-slipped.