Sample Sentences forprudent (editor-reviewed)
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She was promoted to manager because she is so prudent.prudent = sensible and careful
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Courage is dangerous without prudence.prudence = good sense and caution
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And I would remind you that it is not - prudent - to appear less than fond of Harry Potter, not when most of our kind regard him as the hero who made the Dark Lord disappear... (source)prudent = smart (sensible and careful)
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...where women's fashions, for instance, are as prudent and all-covering as any American Baptist would desire. (source)prudent = sensible and careful
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"All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. (source)prudent = careful and sensible
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As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads. (source)prudent = sensible
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remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, (source)prudence = good sense and caution
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Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? (source)prudent = practical or sensible
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Maybe it's imprudent to check them with the others so close.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudent means not and reverses the meaning of prudent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudence means not and reverses the meaning of prudence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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Did he respond prudently, or did he allow his stupidity to sink himself deeper into the mire? (source)prudently = with good sense and caution
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The Prudential Insurance people wanted to locate their regional headquarters here in the nineteen-fifties.† (source)
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Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my husband.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudently means not and reverses the meaning of prudently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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He had come to America with letters of recommendation from old Mrs. Manson Mingott's English son-in-law, the banker, and had speedily made himself an important position in the world of affairs; but his habits were dissipated, his tongue was bitter, his antecedents were mysterious; and when Medora Manson announced her cousin's engagement to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora's long record of imprudences.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudences means not and reverses the meaning of prudences. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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There could be no other accounting for the confidence with which Messala pushed his four forward the instant his competitors were prudentially checking their fours in front of the obstruction—no other except madness.† (source)
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Resolutions, reticences, prudences, fears, fell back like a defeated battalion.† (source)
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