How to Use expedience in a Sentence

expedience

noun

• 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
• Actually, last year proved to be a mix of expedience and setback for the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For the sake of expedience, a vast majority of those cases — 1,967 to date — have been collected in one federal court, in what is known as a multi-district litigation.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2019
• But as is too often the case, short-term political expedience may prevail over the climate imperative.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Frank’s piece portrayed Schmeling in all his aging complexity, his mixture of pride and sin of omission, expedience in the face of evil, and his tangled sense of moral responsibility.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Denver Post, 29 May 2017
• Frank's piece portrayed Schmeling in all his aging complexity, his mixture of pride and sin of omission, expedience in the face of evil, and his tangled sense of moral responsibility.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• Ryan said of the political expedience of Trump’s white nationalist rhetoric.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
• Patrick Wack Xi’s personal patronage of Belt and Road means many questionable projects are getting the green light due to political expedience rather than economic need.
  — Charlie Campbell / Khorgos, Time, 23 Oct. 2017
• Many see the flip-flop as a matter of political expedience, with Meloni having refused to condemn Mussolini.
  — Tom Kington and Tracy Wilkinson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
• Many see the flip-flop as a matter of political expedience, with Meloni having refused to condemn Mussolini.
  — Tom Kington and Tracy Wilkinson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
• However, the best kind of philanthropy should optimize for impact, not expedience or prominence.
  — Marc Merrill, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2020
• Foxwell said Franchot was guided more by political expedience than any set of principles.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• Kentucky has forsaken the forward pass as an emergency expedience and not a philosophical shift.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Nov. 2019
• In his Thursday news conference, Weintraub described having to weigh political expedience and his personal frustration with the matter against his belief in second chances and Shore’s record with the office.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• If certain long-standing traditions are temporarily scrapped in the interests of expedience, that’s plainly preferable to skipping the event entirely.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2020
• Though women’s support for temperance was strong across races, some leaders of the mainstream movement valued political expedience over solidarity, and used racist messages to make their case.
  — National Geographic, 2 Nov. 2020

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