Sentence examples for was not optional from inspiring English sources

For what awaited him after college, maturity was not optional.

It was a quasi-constitutional occasion, where humming along was not optional.

I heard Raúl give a few speeches before a cheering throng who knew that showing up was not optional.

Audience members were given three pages of specifically timed instructions for the piece — a score, in effect — and told that participation was not optional.

At the Council's final work session, on May 19, Mr. O'Grady said that while he hated to drain the city's reserves, he felt the truck was not optional.

In Mr. Naím's view, the president branded Vietnam as "political" to portray it as a war of choice, as opposed to the fight for Iraq, which, by his lights, was not optional.

"It wasn't optional and therefore we included it in every player's contract.

Attendance apparently wasn't optional.

This is not optional.

It's not optional.

Death is not optional.