Sentence examples for non-essential things from inspiring English sources

It's surprising to see how many of us are spending on non-essential things like eating out and holidays.

If the person in the bathroom was only washing or doing other non-essential things, they would open the door and let you in.

But from what I've studied our distractibility has not changed markedly over time, we just have more ways to spend it on non-essential things.

Each subsequent tier charges a higher per-unit price for additional consumption, and is designed to discourage households from using water for non-essential things like watering lawns and filling swimming pools.

Why, management might ask, were these non-essential things being allowed to consume valuable resources?Prahalad and Hamel succeeded in persuading managers to look at strategy as something fluid and imprecise.

"There is a finite supply of this lighter-than-air gas on Earth so if we keep using it for non-essential things like party balloons, where we're just letting it float off into space, we could be in for some serious problems in around 30 to 50 years' time," Dr Wothers said.

Only the easy or non essential things are being disrupted.

Classify your expenditures as fixed essentials (things you need and will always cost about the same amount, like your phone bill), variable essentials (things you need but which vary in cost from month to month, such as gas or food), and non-essentials (things you want but don't necessarily need).

According to some estimates, Americans spend $1.2 trillion on things that are non-essential.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, April 8 , 1944P. 18 Incidental Intelligence: A lady in Philadelphia sent her American flag to the dry-cleaners, but got it back uncleaned, with the explanation that this sort of thing was classified as "non-essential".

It's one of the few things that I class as non-essential – not crucial to my survival.