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Example sentences for "unnecessarily"

Lexicographically close words:
unnaturall; unnaturally; unnaturalness; unnavigable; unnd; unnecessary; unneeded; unneighbourly; unner; unnerve
  1. Lord John could instance many cases in which they had been unnecessarily slighted and provoked by Lord Palmerston, like M.

  2. One thing only distressed him in taking leave, and that was the idea that the Queen might think he had unnecessarily raised difficulties to the formation of a new Government by his Speech in the House of Lords.

  3. He may, indeed, make an act of faith on the authority of his professor; but philosophy is not faith, and no professor who understands his duty would ever unnecessarily oblige his pupils to admit anything as true on his own sole authority.

  4. If he is not in terror of all such animals, it is the inexperienced person who exhibits too much boldness and places himself unnecessarily at the heels of a horse or overrates his powers of control.

  5. A horse shod with shoes unnecessarily heavy is at just that disadvantage; therefore it is of the utmost importance both for his comfort and your safety that he should be shod as lightly as is compatible with the work required of him.

  6. Classical writers are often hastily accused by young learners of having framed their writings with a view to introducing perplexing forms and intolerable constructions, so as unnecessarily to obscure the sense.

  7. Converts in Ephesus, like converts in New York, felt that their friends were right who declared that they were quite unnecessarily strict, and that in order to serve Christ it was not necessary to turn their backs absolutely on Diana.

  8. There must be in the nature of things a certain connexion; but unnecessarily to bind them in union is to bind then unnaturally, and to put the shackles upon the higher, which cannot bear them without degradation.

  9. She hoped he would remain at Oulton till his health was more established, but she hinted that she thought it was for his own interest that neither his stay there, nor indeed in England, should be unnecessarily prolonged.

  10. But before I say it, I beg of you, if a few moments ago I said anything that was unnecessarily severe and more than my Master would warrant, that you will forgive it.

  11. Jake, you are unnecessarily uprooting an aster with the toe of your boot," he said.

  12. We do not desire to make the population of the country we occupy unnecessarily hostile.

  13. The marrying took an unnecessarily long time, it seemed to her.

  14. Such an unnecessarily pretty lady, all furs and fluffles and veils and perfumes and waved hair!

  15. But, said Echephron, if by chance you should never come back, for the voyage is long and dangerous, were it not better for us to take our rest now, than unnecessarily to expose ourselves to so many dangers?

  16. I would not unnecessarily sever the bond which holds me to the upright Christians and the learning of your country, but at the present moment this bond has no value for me.

  17. Now I foresee a certain danger of our being taken by surprise at that Congress, and making ourselves unnecessarily difficult and unreasonable, by presenting ourselves to it in the character of Injured Innocence.

  18. I would not alarm my father unnecessarily until we know whether the affray was serious.

  19. Without any fixed object, he took the road to London; and that, too, by circuitous routes, which rendered the journey unnecessarily tedious.

  20. But, jesting apart, you have received much ill-usage, and been stupidly and unnecessarily deprived of liberty and effects.

  21. True, she looked me over with what seemed to me an unnecessarily and perfectly frank stare of curiosity, but, on sober reflection, I did not hold it against her.

  22. I don't care for these diplomatic affairs; they may be regular but they seem unnecessarily dangerous.

  23. A subordinate blundered, or you would not have found it ready for your investigation--and you've been unduly and unnecessarily inquisitive.

  24. The instrumental scores which Piccinni was blamed for overloading and making unnecessarily prominent appear to us indescribably poverty-stricken.

  25. I have only taken a few liberties with the orthography in order not to distract the reader's attention unnecessarily from the characterisation.

  26. In order to prevent the men of the Piquet being unnecessarily disturbed at night the N.

  27. The two marks of the sensational story are too much activity, or merely miscellaneous activity, and activities unnecessarily and unnaturally heightened and spiced.

  28. It is certainly true that we disquiet ourselves and persecute the children unnecessarily concerning the whole matter of writing during the elementary period.

  29. But the story is quite unnecessarily muddled by information that part of it was supplied by the Norman Mr. Dinmont, and part by an ancient countess.

  30. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations--and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

  31. The kind of timber and the artificial marks by which it was distinguished are descriptive parts of the subject-matter of the charge which cannot be disregarded, although they may have been unnecessarily introduced.

  32. These appliances as indicated should not be unnecessarily expanded, but when expanded they should, wherever practicable, be converted into actively moving flying surfaces, in preference to fixed or inert dead surfaces.

  33. We are now the best friends in the world; and I have promised my husband never to say a cross word unnecessarily to him again.

  34. Considering that for three years I had been obliged to rise at painfully unseasonable hours, this may appear to have been unnecessarily energetic, but as a matter of fact I was not acting without good reasons.

  35. I think he was rather annoyed with Savaroff for being unnecessarily communicative.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unnecessarily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aimlessly; needlessly; unduly