Sample Sentences for
expedient
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    Everything was possible, he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient.  (source)
    expedient = practical
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    This is how the Boss would finally draw some sympathy, an old man put to sleep in a complex scheme so expedient and deceitful as to be widely admired even as it was only half believed.  (source)
    expedient = speedy or practical
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    He carried the bodies up to the prairie, laid them in their shallow graves and helped July pile rocks on the graves, a pitiful expedient that wouldn't deter the varmints for long.  (source)
    expedient = action that is convenient and speedy
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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)
    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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    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)
    expedient = 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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