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.
  • 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
  • Do the right thing instead of bowing to what is most expedient.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • But like many expedient acts, Newsom’s promise proved less salutary with time and more like a set of handcuffs.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Relief must be expedient for both tenants and landlords.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Backing the Keep Nine amendment may also be politically expedient for Democrats who want to be done with Court-packing questions.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 29 July 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
  • Outraged Democrats saw the approach as a classic McConnell tactic: Create a politically expedient standard and then argue that the standard left him no choice but to do what suited him in the first place.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Place customer insights above what’s convenient and expedient for your business.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Apr. 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
  • Among the many modes of land transportation in Alaska, interior flights are expedient, trains are scenic, buses are a relative bargain, and driving may be more economical for a group.
    — Elaine Glusac New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 June 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
  • 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
  • McCarten builds upon the incident, via an all-too-expedient appearance by an ex-girlfriend (Sofia Barclay), to energize the men’s growing symbiosis.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Interestingly, the ambiguities built into the rhetoric of freedom proved to be more expedient than demands for racial equality.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • 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
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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
  • All have been happy to use the EU as a punchbag when expedient.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In Texas, 'do right and risk the consequences' has been replaced with 'do the expedient and follow the NRA'.
    — Mike Ward, Houston Chronicle, 19 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hence the rivets; the most expedient method of joining body panels.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But a measure made expedient by war is no precedent for times of peace.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • The other is the novel’s ending, which is gruesome and, to a degree, expedient.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But for Italy, the ships seemed to offer an expedient way to quell domestic concerns.
    — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • To be expedient, the government offered loans on a first-come, first-serve basis.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The new episode feels more expedient and deadline-pressured than what precedes it.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Take out the garbage The least elegant but most expedient method is sticking an empty 30-gallon garbage can under the runoff.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The couple did the expedient thing and purchased flood insurance.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 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
  • And for a contrasting note of expedient cynicism, there is the old pro Stephen Schellhardt as the amoral Max Detweiler.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • D'Agostino estimates that the Material had 15-20 songs ready and narrowed the list down to five, feeling that an EP was more expedient as well as more in keeping with the times.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • Instead Senior Care, who reached out to vendors in Ferndale and Troy to provide masks and face shields to clients in an expedient fashion.
    — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Carter urged Mueller to be transparent but also expedient in his work.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The route through the Icefall varies from year to year, as the Icefall Doctors seek to find a way through the Icefall's many crevasses and seracs that is both safe (relatively speaking) and expedient.
    — Jonah Ogles, Outside Online, 6 Apr. 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • Laying blame with Trump does provide a speedy, expedient means of recourse for the general public.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Winning Warnock's seat would make that process easier and more expedient.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In a swath of academia, the pandemic expedient of dropping the tests has seamlessly transitioned to a permanent change.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 May 2023

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