Sample Sentences forpertinent (auto-selected)
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This is particularly pertinent if a parent or grandparent belongs to the Jewish religion.† (source)
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Paul's question had been direct and pertinent.† (source)
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Merrill's passages being more "pertinent," Mr. Wiggin's more flowery.† (source)
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"He is neither impertinent nor pertinent," said Sophie.† (source)
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.† (source)
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Is that a fact pertinent to the murder of Carl Heine?† (source)
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Bring all files pertinent to the Johannsen case and the Pandora case, and be ....† (source)
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"And why didn't you want to?" he asked pertinently.† (source)
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Do you have any other questions of pertinence to your situation?† (source)
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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)
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...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.
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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)
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"I know it pertinently," replied the protonotary.† (source)
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They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling.† (source)
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But all of that was pertinent only in the night, and had nothing to do with the man you loved, at least in daylight.† (source)
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The hostess pertinently remarked that she, as eldest son, might surely rank among the millionaire's legatees.† (source)
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