Sample sentences for PERTINENT

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having logical relevance to the matter at hand

There is another question, pertinent to the former, and that is, What remedy can we apply to this malady?
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

Newman fancied that he saw signs in M. de Bellegarde's discolored mask that this information was extremely pertinent.
Henry James -- The American
Did I remain businesslike and ask pertinent questions?
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Never was spoken language of such inflexible necessity, never had it known questions so pertinent, such obvious replies.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
Conway felt that the question was pertinent, for Mallinson's attitude left little doubt as to what he would do as soon as he reached India.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
"And why didn't you want to?" he asked pertinently.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
The question which rendered us rather uneasy, was a pertinent one.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Whether or not the avant-garde could possibly flourish under a totalitarian regime is not pertinent to the question at this point.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
The three rushed from the building, Cassius reiterating as much of the pertinent information as he could.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
It was a pattern that the rest of the guard would never have noticed, since Eleazar was the one passing the pertinent intelligence privately to Aro.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
But all of that was pertinent only in the night, and had nothing to do with the man you loved, at least in daylight.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
It dawned on Ishmael, in the coast guard record room, that perhaps something pertinent to Kabuo's case could be found right here among these files.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
She felt a numbed emptiness —and the sense of being thrown far below the realm where moral indignation is pertinent.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Nor did the scout fail to throw in a pertinent inquiry, whenever a fitting occasion presented.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
Accordingly, Articles 8 through 10 were cited by Holabird as the passages most pertinent to the case.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
She talked vaguely and indiscriminately to prevent his talking pertinently.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
You call him iniquitous, I have other terms, but they're not pertinent here.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Take over a few courses from the older men, start some special groups for myself .... plow a few pertinent wives.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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