9 sentences with “essentially”

Water is essentially odorless.

The poem is essentially a reflection on life.

The problem lay, essentially, in the poor communication they had with each other.

Mesopotamian cities always had walls, some of which were 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, essentially huge mounds of earth reinforced with bricks.

Under the consuls was the Senate, essentially a large body of aristocratic administrators, appointed for life, who controlled the finances of the state.

By then, however, the legal and social conditions of farmers had degenerated to the point where they were essentially serfs (known as colonists): unfree rural labourers, hardly better than slaves themselves.

All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited.

Although Sparta could not take Athens on its own, Athens was essentially under siege for decades; life went on, but it was usually impossible for Athenians to travel overland in Greece outside their home region of Attica.

Bureaucracy is essentially the substitution of rules in place of individual human decisions. That process, while often frustrating for the individuals caught up in it, has the effect of creating a more efficient set of processes than can be achieved by arbitrary decision-making.