Sentence examples for strictly unnecessary from inspiring English sources

But if he included the song to connect with the jazz tradition, the gesture was strictly unnecessary.

The 5th-century Athenian economy, though it continued to draw on the silver of Laurium and was underpinned by the more recently acquired assets of an organized empire, nevertheless looked to individuals to finance both necessary projects like triremes and strictly unnecessary ones like tragedies.

To pocket additional, and strictly unnecessary, income, while one's employees cannot put food on their tables or a roof over their heads is, to me, the very definition of profiting at the expense of others' wellbeing.

This is strictly unnecessary, but the extra effort and $5 will make your DIY crossbars look great.

Those last three words were, strictly speaking, unnecessary, but they conveyed something about the stubbornness and singlemindedness that boxing demands.

For a while, I equated happiness with that feeling I get when I impulse-buy something that is, strictly speaking, unnecessary or luxurious.

Indeed, since we never have access to the world except through our private perceptions and ideas, action in the world is, strictly speaking, unnecessary.

Strictly this refinement is unnecessary, because the winning strategies are not affected if we decree instead that a player who breaks the law loses immediately; but for many games this way of viewing them seems unnatural.