Sample Sentences for
expedient
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    It was now packed inside the beaded bag, which, Harry was impressed to learn, Hermione had protected from the Snatchers by the simple expedient of stuffing it down her sock.  (source)
    expedient = speedy and practical action
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    Everything was possible, he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient.  (source)
    expedient = 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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    In the morgue ... the smell of rot is so strong it chases away all other living things, except a man called Presnel, who has no money and family. He squats in the dirt of the courtyard, waiting to die. "Crazy man," Daniel explains, but not unkindly. The man is truly dying, and waits there, to be expedient.  (source)
    expedient = practical or convenient
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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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    When Ole arrived he bobbled his cane from hand to hand before settling on the expediency of hanging it from his wrist.  (source)
    expediency = practical action
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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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    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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    Such expedients as knocking down walls and letting the dead encroach on neighboring land proved inadequate; some new method had to be evolved without delay.  (source)
    expedients = actions that are speedy, practical, or convenient
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