Sample Sentences for
pertinent
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  • Merrill's passages being more "pertinent," Mr. Wiggin's more flowery.†  (source)
  • Is that a fact pertinent to the murder of Carl Heine?†  (source)
  • What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.†  (source)
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  • "We comply with all pertinent environmental regulations," Johnson said automatically.†  (source)
  • "And why didn't you want to?" he asked pertinently.†  (source)
  • Do you have any other questions of pertinence to your situation?†  (source)
  • For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option, since if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.†  (source)
  • ...To withhold such emotionally disturbing but medically nonpertinent details ...is in the best tradition of responsible clinical practice.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonpertinent means not and reverses the meaning of pertinent. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • Bring all files pertinent to the Johannsen case and the Pandora case, and be ....†  (source)
  • "I know it pertinently," replied the protonotary.†  (source)
  • They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling.†  (source)
  • There had to be some much briefer, and simpler, way to thank Hobie and say what I had to say: namely, that he shouldn't feel bad, he'd always been good to me and done his best to help me, just as my mother and I had done our best to help this baby pit bull, who—it was actually a pertinent point, only I didn't want to spin the story out too long—for all her sweet-tempered qualities had been incredibly destructive in the days leading to her death, she'd pretty much destroyed the whole apartment and ripped our sofa to pieces.†  (source)
  • The hostess pertinently remarked that she, as eldest son, might surely rank among the millionaire's legatees.†  (source)
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