VITAL in a Sentence

Learn VITAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
128 example sentences for VITAL, such as:
1. The work she does is absolutely vital.
2. A good diet is vital for healthy growth.
3. Early detection of the disease is vital.
4. Honesty is a vital element of her success.
5. It is vital that inflation is kept in check.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VITAL
vital
 a.  manifesting or characteristic of life
 a.  full of spirit
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The same railroads which had made the town the crossroads of commerce in time of peace were now of vital strategic importance in time of war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men were almost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States' Rights.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  But there was something stimulating about him, something warm and vital and electric.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Something vital, electric, leaped from him to her at the touch of his warm mouth, something that caressed her whole body thrillingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  I avoided everything which was not shadowy, people and situations which were too real, too vital.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  He had her hands in both of his and, as always, there was something hot and vital and exciting about his grip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  She was remembering the vital, virile old man with his mane of crisp white hair, his bellowing cheerfulness, his stamping boots, his clumsy jokes, his generosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  Behind her and her husband were the four Tarleton girls, their red locks indecorous notes in the solemn occasion, their russet eyes still looking like the eyes of vital young animals, spirited and dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  The most energetic and vital places in town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  The movies were almost as vital to Kennicott and the other solid citizens of Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
15  But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  It is absolutely vital that food supplies should be maintained.
2  The work she does is absolutely vital.
3  The President said the agreement would allow other vital problems to be dealt with.
4  The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
5  Liaison between police forces and the art world is vital to combat art crime.
6  The babies in this unit have various devices attached to them which monitor the vital signs.
7  They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform.
8  It is vital that inflation is kept in check.
9  These monuments are a vital part of the cultural heritage of South America.
10  Now, can we move on and discuss the vital business of the day, please.
11  Early detection of the disease is vital.
12  Honesty is a vital element of her success.
13  A good diet is vital for healthy growth.
14  Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
15  One vital item of data was missing from the table.