Sample Sentences for
essence
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    The essence of friendship is trust, even more than shared interests.
    essence = most important quality
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    She described the essence of chaos theory as "sensitive dependence on initial conditions."
    essence = defining quality
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    Charles Wallace's difference isn't physical. It's in essence.  (source)
    essence = his basic underlying nature
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    The essence of a successful hoax was that it presented scientists with what they expected to see.  (source)
    essence = most important quality
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    Time is of the essence, as I'm sure you're aware.†  (source)
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    She remembered that night, long ago, when she had seen Ogbu-agali-odu, one of those evil essences loosed upon the world by the potent "medicines" which the tribe had made in the distant past against its enemies but had now forgotten how to control.†  (source)
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    Then, her hand trembling, she shook Millicent Bulstrode's hair out of its bottle into the first glass. The potion hissed loudly like a boiling kettle and frothed madly. A second later, it had turned a sick sort of yellow. "Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode," said Ron, eyeing it with loathing.  (source)
    essence = an extract that concentrates important qualities
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    Time is of the essence in an emergency, don't you think?†  (source)
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    At peace, they could act like gods, not ghosts, their descent lines providing them with paper suits and dresses, spirit money, paper houses, paper automobiles, chicken, meat, and rice into eternity— essences delivered up in smoke and flames, steam and incense rising from each rice bowl.†  (source)
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    Roman, Andrew, and I stay up well past midnight, trying to make sense of McCandless's life and death, yet his essence remains slippery, vague, elusive.  (source)
    essence = most defining qualities
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    We just spent an hour finding the trail, and dawn wasn't that far away, so time was of the essence.†  (source)
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    It's a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences.†  (source)
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    This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience—Scout, I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.  (source)
    essence = the defining or most important aspect
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