Sentence examples for really optional from inspiring English sources

"He said: 'It's not really optional.

Their reasoning — they have a 'wealth of experience' that they can draw upon so preparation is really optional.

The lack of public acknowledgement for certain team members, the optional hard drive which isn't really optional, the absence of a completed operating system for a product that's about to be demo'd, these are all treated with the same urgency as political crises in The West Wing.

Note that the first dot in *3·01, i.e., between the p and q, is really optional, given the above quotation from PM.

Another theme in my work is that green isn't really optional anymore.

Here, the Parmesan isn't really optional: The dish will taste flat without it (I know because I tried it before adding cheese).

Not, happily, in Milwaukee and environs, where neon-clad Leon's (the inspiration for Arnold's joint in "Happy Days") still serves terrific stuff, with a not-really-optional crown of hot fudge.

"Medication should not really be optional," Dr. Barkley said.

Since this was the infamous class project of a veteran teacher, it was really not optional at all.

But it would be nice if people appeared without it rather more often, just to establish the principle that it really is optional.

Let the glue design really pop! Optional: You can brush some Mod Podge if you'd like to seal it off.