In a sentence
Six example sentences with vital, each labelled with its topic.
The rural clinic ran out of insulin, and the airlift of that vital supply took eleven hours to arrange.
Medicine
Sleep is the vital piece most runners skip, and no amount of extra mileage compensates for four broken nights.
Fitness
With the warehouse flooded, the backup supplier became vital, and the founders drove overnight to sign the contract personally.
Business
Wetlands are vital to the migrating birds, which cannot cross the desert without the stop to rest and feed.
Environment
Copper exports are vital to the country's budget, and a price drop abroad shows up in the schools within a year.
Economics
Hiring one experienced engineer proved vital, since the founders had been shipping features that nobody could maintain.
Startups
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Found in these word lists
Found in 10 published word lists
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- Business Word List (part 1)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Nursing Word ListAuthoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Word ListAuthoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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