Sentence examples for nonessential items from inspiring English sources

But consumers kept their pocketbooks zipped for nonessential items.

During these slow times, my mother would lament that we sold such nonessential items.

They expense nonessential items to someone else who specializes in offering these items as a service.

Shoppers continue to buy food and other basics, but hold back on nonessential items.

Saks Fifth Avenue's sales increased 9.3 percent, and there, too, people were drawn to nonessential items.

Analysts say that increases in gasoline prices constrain consumer spending on things like electronics, travel and other nonessential items.

"Registering for gifts provides a guilt-free enjoyment of an exotic or nonessential item".

But things change when somebody decides to put a nonessential item on the market: the person looks at an object, creates an imaginary value for what it is worth and asks for the equivalent of that fabricated value in currency.

Sanitary ware in the UK is classed as a "luxury, nonessential item" and is taxed at 5percentt.

Items were then subject to reliability testing, to account for the consistency of participant response, followed by item reduction, to remove superfluous and nonessential survey items.

Income generation as a livelihood strategy was suggested to have increased in importance over time, primarily to pay for school fees, imported food, building materials, and nonessential luxury items.