Example Sentences

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There are some great songs on it, but they're smothered in unnecessaries that made it really cloudy.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2013

She has the air of somebody who has reached a point in her life where she is dispensing with the unnecessaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Thursday, August 5th, the Regiment sorrowfully packed up all unnecessaries and piled them in the regimental dump.

From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)

No mission chest piously outfitted at home ever carried to the remote heathen a more useless assortment of unnecessaries than this one brought to me.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

We also had enough unnecessaries to bring us to grief in a couple of weeks.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)