REQUIREMENT in a Sentence

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People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.

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 Meanings and Examples of REQUIREMENT
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requirement
 n.  something indispensable; something that you must do, or something you need
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I had made up my mind to do a lot of college requirement work in the summer, and to enter the freshman class at the university without conditions in the fall.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
2  This was the requirement for the first one or two years of their stay.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
3  Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
4  An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
5  Nothing less than the first was required to soften the second.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
6  Father Madeleine required of the men good will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
7  , where her sick mother required her presence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
8  The season for ploughing is just beginning; heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from the post as well as elsewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
9  In the wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, because space is required, you see.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
10  All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
11  In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
12  In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when it was required.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
13  She would have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
14  A man's whole strength is required to successfully carry out these singular ascents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
15  A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Students are required to attend prayers twice a week.
17  You are required by the District Attorney to provide your phone bills, both business and personal.
18  People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
19  Total concentration is required with no distractions.
20  A lengthy period of training is required.
21  Environmental impact reports are required under many circumstances by federal and state law.
22  Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications.
23  He had been circumcised within eight days of birth as required by Jewish law.
24  I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.
25  Every citizen of the twenty-first century should be required to read the personal experiences of the residents of the bombed city.
26  The firm required a reference to establish the bona fides of the client.
27  Doctors are required to keep patients' records completely confidential.
28  The course required no prior knowledge of Spanish.
29  More keyboarding staff are required for data entry.
30  A high degree of expertise is required for this stage of the manufacturing process.