Sentence examples for nearly essential from inspiring English sources

Though you're never going to miss a parsnip, some ingredients are nearly essential.

The one time I ate it without rice or bread -- one or the other is nearly essential -- I had to finish the broth with a spoon.

Thus it follows that with the retirement of President Clinton, the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Senate would appear to be pretty nearly essential to the economic well-being of book publishing.

I know I don't like it all the time: headphones are nearly essential, unless you live by yourself and create an environment to hear all the panning and layering of sound properly.

Web-based tools are becoming nearly essential to many aspects of running a business, so why not bring them into the process of creating and executing a business plan?

In the confusion of a conference, our favorite tracker, the Tile, becomes nearly essential.

Massage blends, floral waters, hair and body care, base oils and nearly 80 essential oils.

As with the rest of the superb REM reissue series, the second disc is nearly as essential, offering a 1987 show that thrills and delights.

And Dylan's involvement with the writings of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest of the Beat generation is nearly as essential to Dylan's biography as his immersion in rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and then Woody Guthrie.

It was difficult watching her reject something that had so clearly alleviated her nausea and pain and — let's admit it — lightened her mood in the face of the terrible fact that cancer had invaded nearly every essential organ.

The Post Radio may sound like a tool that is nearly as essential to the Fire Department as a flashlight, given that the Fire Department's walkie-talkies, like conventional cellphones, do not operate well, or at all, in the middle of dense high-rise buildings or the subways.