How do you use Essentially in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like basically or fundamentally, plus the exact meaning.
Essentially meaning
- In an essential way.
- In essence: by nature.
Synonyms of Essentially
Essentially vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Essentially
- The main meaning on this page is: In an essential way. | In essence: by nature. | In an essential way.
- Useful related words include: basically, fundamentally, in essence, au fond.
- Possible Dutch translations are: essentieel.
- In the example corpus, essentially often appears in combinations such as: is essentially, essentially the, and essentially.
Context around Essentially
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Essentially
- In this selection, "essentially" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bots, destruction, khan, tied, decided and apply stand out and add context to how "essentially" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include body was essentially possessed by and cities to essentially apply social. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "essentially" sits close to words such as web, explore and extension, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with essentially
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Although Johnny himself was essentially harmless, his toxic behavior gave kids the wrong idea about approaching potential dates. (18 words)
Against the Pacers on Wednesday, the Bulls (26-33) gave up a 24-point lead and essentially rolled over. (19 words)
Additional features include Ambient Aware tech — which is essentially a transparent mode — plus a TalkThru feature for when you stop to chat. (22 words)
Account owners can essentially gift access to a friend or family member who lives somewhere else, but it costs an extra $7.99/mo to do so on top of the $15 to $20/mo they’re already paying to stream in the first place. (45 words)
Although Yoshiharu Sagara may not be a literal "Monkey," he is certainly treated like one by the girls in charge, which is a small price to pay considering he essentially changed the course of the world's history by initiating Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death. (44 words)
We have said that Christ’s morality was the active side of his theology—not something added to it, or made to be collateral with it, but essentially part of it, so essentially to as to have no existence without it. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
And what they essentially decided was that they would pioneer these efforts in the inner cities to essentially apply social science to these cities and with a tremendous amount of money.
But when you're dealing with something that is essentially nefarious he's essentially seeking to have them take actions that are deeply at least irregular and probably illegal, the law gets pretty, pretty severe on that,” Weiner said.
A late and unexpected flag came in against a Burbank receiver downfield and essentially killed the momentum the Bulldogs had in what essentially would have been a one-touchdown game midway through the final quarter.
We have said that Christ’s morality was the active side of his theology—not something added to it, or made to be collateral with it, but essentially part of it, so essentially to as to have no existence without it.
The “economic dislocation” of the Palestinians came through land sales laws, administrative rules that essentially removed what was essentially the Palestinian agricultural society from their land and created a low wage labor force.
Abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide Singer holds that the right to life is essentially tied to a being's capacity to hold preferences, which in turn is essentially tied to a being's capacity to feel pain and pleasure.
According to him, a minor cost to use platforms could be of great help in combating bots, essentially making it expensive to create fake accounts.
Account owners can essentially gift access to a friend or family member who lives somewhere else, but it costs an extra $7.99/mo to do so on top of the $15 to $20/mo they’re already paying to stream in the first place.
A collaborative investigation alleged that Verra, the world’s largest issuer of voluntary carbon credits, had sold credits for forests that were not at risk of destruction, essentially wiping out the value of the credits.
Across Israel’s northern border, in Lebanon, the Iranians have forged the Shiite Hezbollah movement into what is essentially a surrogate army, obeying Tehran’s orders.
Additional features include Ambient Aware tech — which is essentially a transparent mode — plus a TalkThru feature for when you stop to chat.
Add to the mix what Meltzer reported about Tony Khan essentially not cleared to do a Jay Briscoe TV tribute, let alone an in-depth mention…You’d swear nothing happened watching this show.
Adira and Tal, who are lovers, were essentially adopted by Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber, forming a beautiful progressive family aboard the USS Discovery.
A faithful adaptation of Mario would be essentially plotless, just a bunch of action sequences set against a rotating series of bright, colorful environments.
A fifth-dimensional imp who loves to irritate Superman, Mxyzptlk essentially considers DC's main plane of existence to be a playground where reality warps and changes at his command.
After Jacques' death at the hands of Kang the Conqueror, his body was essentially possessed by one of the alien Cotati, which inherited his memories and personality.
Against the Pacers on Wednesday, the Bulls (26-33) gave up a 24-point lead and essentially rolled over.
Although Johnny himself was essentially harmless, his toxic behavior gave kids the wrong idea about approaching potential dates.
Although Yoshiharu Sagara may not be a literal "Monkey," he is certainly treated like one by the girls in charge, which is a small price to pay considering he essentially changed the course of the world's history by initiating Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death.
And beyond the money, there needs to be criminal liability for anyone who can be proven to be complicit, who actively or passively enabled the systemic sex abuse, essentially sex trafficking of children.
Common combinations with essentially
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is essentially 16×
- essentially the 13×
- and essentially 8×
- essentially it 8×
- to essentially 7×
- was essentially 7×
- were essentially 6×
- which essentially 6×
- will essentially 6×
- essentially an 5×