EXPEDIENCY in a Sentence
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58 example sentences for EXPEDIENCY, such as:
1. The Magnon sought an expedient.
2. Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
3. This decision was based on principle rather than expediency.
4. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath.
5. She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
2. Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
3. This decision was based on principle rather than expediency.
4. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath.
5. She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
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Meanings and Examples of EXPEDIENCY
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expediency
n. the quality of being suited to the end in view
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
2 After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency.
3 If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
4 He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room.
5 After talking a little more about Mansfield, a subject in which her interest was most apparent, Crawford began to hint at the expediency of an early walk.
6 The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took counsel together on the expediency of shipping off Oliver Twist, in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port.
7 It's merely a matter of expediency, you see, my girls will naturally take the lead, and this table is considered their proper place.
8 Association with the masters, missionary effort and motives of expediency gave these rites an early veneer of Christianity, and after the lapse of many generations the Negro church became Christian.
9 She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
10 To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have adopted the expedient of smiling at them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
11 He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath.
12 In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
13 An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim.
14 From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
15 The Magnon sought an expedient.
Example Sentence:
1 This decision was based on principle rather than expediency.
2 We think it is expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new administration.
3 Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
4 This solution is politically expedient but may well cause long-term problems.
5 Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
6 I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.
7 Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations.
8 A pragmatic politician, he was guided by what was expedient rather than by what was ethical.