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His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.

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 Meanings and Examples of INDISPENSABLE
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indispensable
 a.  essential; requisite; impossible to be omitted or remitted
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
2  Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, dominated by a bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
3  Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
4  If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is indispensable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
5  Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
6  His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
7  It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
8  So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
9  Nevertheless, it was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict with legal order.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
11  Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
12  Oh, yes; that is indispensable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
13  She had, in short, failed to make herself indispensable; or rather, her attempt to do so had been thwarted by an influence stronger than any she could exert.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
14  It is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
15  Cora betrayed a disposition to support her sister, and the sacred song proceeded, after the indispensable preliminaries of the pitchpipe, and the tune had been duly attended to by the methodical David.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
Example Sentence:
1  When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory.
2  To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
3  Computer is indispensable to modern life.
4  This book is an indispensable resource for researchers.
5  Those rights which have been established, need to be defended, and therefore access to effective legal resource is indispensable.
6  This book is indispensable to anyone interested in space exploration.
7  It was the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state.
8  Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom.