How to Use expedience in a Sentence

expedience

noun
  • But to Trump and some of his advisers, the memo had a certain expedience.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Nwandu’s larger view makes the choice to write him that way more than an expedience.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • True, Springfield is not known for much action of any kind lately, but expedience is a safe bet to win out in the end.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • That is one of a few parts of this compact that spurred the legal challenges, as the case takes twists and turns through the court system, which is not known for its expedience.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Actually, last year proved to be a mix of expedience and setback for the Heat.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2017
  • The art world is a mercenary place where grudges often give way to expedience.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The expedience with which the show was produced worked in its favor, as there was still plenty of raw emotion to go around to lend the show its share of raw emotion.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2019
  • But airports are stressful places where many of us are inclined to trade all sorts of liberties for the promise of safety or expedience.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • Those plans are more similar to the Affordable Care Act’s approach, in part for expedience.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The Man in Black tracks and torments Roland and Jake from one hideaway to the next, at times sacrificing expedience in order to kill as many people as possible.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Fitting two systems to the M70 was mostly a matter of expedience: Bosch does not make a twelve-cylinder version of its Motronic system.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
  • What we humans call good and evil may, in the animal world, has an explanation that rests less on morality and more on expedience.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
  • The fuzziness with time just adds to the impression that this is a story driven by coincidence and expedience rather than logic.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The drone program with Swiss Post offers the first chance for an urban area to experience medical drone expedience.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Outside the bars and brothels, the patriotic choice would have been instant coffee, a longtime trench-war expedience that had secured new shelf-life in the kitchens of Golden Age consumers.
    — Steven Cohen, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • People are tired of those same promises and expedience where the grassroots of the Republican Party are used, abused and exploited and then toss out of the window as soon as these people are re-elected.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Lazarus frogs achieved celebrity status by the simple expedience of survival, ascending to icons of hope and instilling a sense of local and national pride.
    — Robin Moore, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2014
  • Machines are tweaked for very high tilt sensitivity in tournament play for the sake of expedience, and so luck plays an even bigger factor than normal when the stakes are higher.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
  • Dungy and Vincent believe such expedience ignores that there is a deep pool of accomplished candidates.
    — NBC News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The proposal, which would have to be approved by CityCouncil, appears to be rooted in a mix of good intentions, expedience, and impatience to get something done in the waning months of Jackson’s fourth term.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 1 May 2021
  • Romney is hardly the first candidate to change allegiances or jump on a bandwagon in the name of political expedience.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Make no mistake, Biden is a true patriot — someone who unlike so many cares more about his country, the welfare of its citizens and the Constitution than political expedience and personal gain.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024

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