How to Use expedient in a Sentence

expedient

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Do the right thing, not the expedient thing.
  • They found it expedient to negotiate with the terrorists.
  • Do the right thing instead of bowing to what is most expedient.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But that's no excuse to take the easy or expedient way out with misdemeanor pleas.
    — Elie Honig, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
  • All of this is being offered to the public in a way that is found to be expedient for the ruling circles of a certain country.
    — NBC News, 14 June 2021
  • For those who missed out on the opportunity in the past or for the youngsters who want to learn a safe and expedient way, there is a solution.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Allowing someone else to claim credit for your work, Adams knew, could be the most expedient way to get the work done.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Relief must be expedient for both tenants and landlords.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Of course, the laborious chore of going from self-driving car to self-driving car would seem not very expedient if the fiend is aiming to perform a mass takeover.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Strategists saw the move as a politically expedient way to align with Mr. Musk.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • The letter says the process will be conducted in a manner that is both expedient and respectful of all involved while maintaining the standards of the Academy.
    — Chloe Melas, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Place customer insights above what’s convenient and expedient for your business.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • And waiting for a public guardian to be appointed can take months, leaving a professional guardian as the most expedient way to move patients from the hospital to a nursing home or other setting.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
  • But it’s not lost on the club that the most expedient path to improvement in 2021 is to score more goals.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • So for a small state operating under severe constraints, mowing the lawn offers an expedient way of coping with an intractable problem.
    — Andrew Bacevich, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Of course, science is the first thing tossed out the window nowadays, except when its reference is politically expedient.
    — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • To expedite their relentless foraging, the ants rapidly build bridges over gaps in their path or across trees, using their own bodies as building blocks to create a smooth and expedient path for their kin.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
  • Moore repeatedly exposed himself to intense hostile fire to insure the proper and expedient deployment of friendly troops.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2017
  • So this isn’t at all the cheap or expedient way to go, and for that the Yorks have to be credited after going cheap or expedient in so many previous important moments.
    — Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Interestingly, the ambiguities built into the rhetoric of freedom proved to be more expedient than demands for racial equality.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • Please trust that the Board of Governors will conduct this process in a manner that is both expedient and respectful of all involved while maintaining the standards of the Academy.
    — Vulture, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Those activists argue that adding more police is a politically expedient move that doesn’t help reduce violence.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
  • These judges are strong constitutionalists who will rule for what is right before the law, not what is culturally and politically expedient.
    — Jeanne Mancini, National Review, 10 July 2021
  • Mr. Kaplinsky and other backers of arbitration argue that the private legal system is a more expedient way to resolve disputes.
    — Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery, New York Times, 5 May 2016
  • Such promises were expedient then, when foreign militaries were in the process of leaving Afghanistan—a departure that the Taliban was keen to see happen without delay.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2021
  • States, counties and school districts are trying to figure out the most reassuring and expedient ways to reach younger adolescents as well as their parents, whose consent is usually required by state law.
    — Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman New York Times, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • States, counties and school districts around the country are trying to figure out the most reassuring and expedient ways to reach younger adolescents as well as their parents, whose consent is usually required by state law.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2021
  • In this region, burying the past has always been politically expedient, as has been digging it out and manipulating it as convenient.
    — Cristina Florea, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The consequences for abandoning our system of laws and our constitutional rights in favor of what is politically expedient are monumental.
    — WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Speaking to as many consumers as possible at once might seem expedient, but there are potential hazards to be aware of when attempting to minimize the fallout of a narrative that has grown beyond the company’s control via these channels.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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expedient

2 of 2 noun
  • We can solve this problem by the simple expedient of taking out another loan.
  • The government chose short-term expedients instead of a real economic policy.
  • The new expedient is going to be simply dumping many of them on the streets.
    — The Editors, National Review, 11 May 2023
  • But a measure made expedient by war is no precedent for times of peace.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • Hence the rivets; the most expedient method of joining body panels.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In the face of such a large deficit, imposing a hefty tax increase on the wealthy may seem like an expedient option.
    — Teresa Keegan, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2017
  • All have been happy to use the EU as a punchbag when expedient.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The couple did the expedient thing and purchased flood insurance.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The new episode feels more expedient and deadline-pressured than what precedes it.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The gist is that a longer set of instructions or code might ultimately be faster or more expedient than a shorter set.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • To be the leader means taking responsibility and doing the right thing—not the easy or the expedient thing.
    — Harry Kraemer, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But for Italy, the ships seemed to offer an expedient way to quell domestic concerns.
    — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • This was expedient, but also seemed to correspond to a genuine sense that the theatrics had started to overwhelm his work.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The other is the novel’s ending, which is gruesome and, to a degree, expedient.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Carter urged Mueller to be transparent but also expedient in his work.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • To be expedient, the government offered loans on a first-come, first-serve basis.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 19 Apr. 2020
  • When expedient, whole tribes were welcomed into the empire and given some sort of legal status.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • Global warming cannot be slowed by just one expedient, and climate change cannot actually be stopped in the short or medium term.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2012
  • The expedient relations between empathy and sadism, the possibility that the two words might name the same feeling, is a large theme in the book.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Especially if one of us were to feel ill or to test positive, the rest of us could get tested in a more expedient way and hopefully lessen the impact on the business.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2020
  • This is a model that is very popular and considered expedient.
    — Ramesh Shurma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Quite obviously, the expedient action on both governors’ parts would have been to wave these bills through.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Winning Warnock's seat would make that process easier and more expedient.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Most of them, of course, subscribed to the newsletter in order to prepare for the perfectly legal expedient of killing themselves.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Rather than the simple small-car expedient of MacPherson struts in front, the Chevette has a pair of control arms on each side.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Laying blame with Trump does provide a speedy, expedient means of recourse for the general public.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Strike a balance between doing the socially expedient thing and doing your best to advance over the competition.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 June 2020
  • However, staff and council members said the city yard could be more expedient and lower-cost than other options.
    — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Both have shown a comfort with saying what is expedient in the moment, while making choices that promote their own idealized images of their brand.
    — Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2017
  • For instance, having a sense of urgency and an expedient response to every missing persons case.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021

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