Sample Sentences forexpedient (editor-reviewed)
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It was a necessary expedient to get the job done.expedient = practical but not ideal
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Borrowing chairs from next door was a useful expedient until the new ones arrived.expedient = practical solution
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Everything was possible, he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient. (source)expedient = practical
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Surely they must know that she didn't like Governor Bullock any more than they did but that it was expedient to be nice to him. (source)
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It had been settled in the evening between the aunt and the niece, that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy's in coming to see them on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley, for she had reached it only to a late breakfast, ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by some exertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning. (source)
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I fear it was wrong, though expedient. (source)expedient = speedy or practical
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...it was found expedient to send a deputation of the church, in order to deal with Mr. Hooper about the mystery, before it should grow into a scandal. (source)expedient = practical
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And in this connection it is curious to remark that even on this earth Nature has never hit upon the wheel, or has preferred other expedients to its development. (source)expedients = actions that are speedy or practical
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In the Icefall, though, expediency dictated that each of us climb independently, without being physically connected to one another in any way. (source)expediency = the need to be practical
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'It was said once to me that it is inexpedient to write the names of strangers concerned in any matter, because by the naming of names many good plans are brought to confusion.'† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inexpedient means not and reverses the meaning of expedient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Expedience still demands decisions which will one day be judged unjust. (source)Expedience = the need for practical actions
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As soon as Mabel believed that her companion was sufficiently frightened to make her wary, she threw out some hints touching the inexpediency of letting the soldiers know the extent of their own fears.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inexpediency means not and reverses the meaning of expediency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Thus in the last months of 1967 I began thinking in earnest about Sophie and Nathan's sorrowful destiny; I knew I would have to deal with it eventually, just as I had dealt those many years before, so successfully and expediently, with another young woman I had loved beyond hope—the doomed Maria Hunt.† (source)
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his actions were generally dictated by chance expediencies rather than based on any formal plan. (source)expediencies = actions that are convenient
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I thought it would be more . . . expedient if Jeanine Matthews didn't survive much longer. (source)expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical
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By building up a series of imaginary expedients to prevent "the worst coming to the worst" ... (source)expedients = practical actions
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