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How to use the word supplementary in a Sentence?

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This product is supplementary to the official NWS heat watch/warning/advisory program and is meant to provide continuously available heat risk guidance for those decision makers and heat sensitive populations who need to take actions at levels that may be below current NWS heat product levels.

The NWS

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's supplementary gardening, there's no way this would sustain a family of five. But we're amping it up, so we can try and avoid the store a little more in the coming months.

Jaime Calder

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the brush-tailed rock-wallaby, initial fire assessments indicate the habitat of several important brush-tailed rock-wallaby populations was burnt in the recent bushfires. The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat.

Matt Kean

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Up at that height, the air is very thin and most of us need supplementary oxygen, you can imagine the fear and the terror when that suddenly explodes.

Ben Fogle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The company is actively coordinating and preparing a reply and will provide supplementary information to perfect the proposal.

Wanda Cinema

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Sending back people who would not have access to protection in Turkey poses a certain number of problems in terms of international law and European law, i hope that in the next 10 days a certain number of supplementary guarantees will be put in place so that people sent back to Turkey will have access to an examination of their request (for asylum).

Vincent Cochetel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Factory output lacks strength in July-September due to sluggish exports of cars and electric machinery, if consumer spending fails to pick up, the government may compile a supplementary budget.

Junichi Makino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Things are worse now than they were last year inside the camps. We can maintain standard services here, but people's supplementary resources are more stretched, four years in, they're at the bottom of the barrel.

Stephen Allen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The only strategy is: invest large sums of money in regenerating dead meadows, grow supplementary crops before the autumn, and/or eliminate a significant part of the herd, to reduce the effect on feed reserves.

Dieter Konow

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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