Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Journalists are indispensably well positioned to expose abuses of power, but a press pass is not a moral unlimited-ride card.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2019

His only indispensably distinctive characteristic is that in a certain way he misrepresents what he is up to.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2019

Lila Neugebauer’s terrific production proves it to be an indispensably excellent work in its own right, and a suitable tribute to the playwright, who died in 2016.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2018

And it serves, indispensably, as the creepy mascot of Halloween.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2011

They are linked so intimately and indispensably with the lives of many fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans that were they no longer habitable these seafoods would disappear from our tables.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson