How to Use inconvenient in a Sentence

inconvenient

adjective

• The restaurant is in an inconvenient location.
• The fact that Georgia holds runoffs was inconvenient for the GOP in 2020.
  — Aaron Blake, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• But an eclipse dims the sun much faster and can do it at an inconvenient time of day.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• One of the most inconvenient parts of owning a hand mixer is the cord.
  — Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023
• And while inconvenient, tantrums cannot and should not be stopped—so long as your child is safe.
  — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
• No amount of talk about the greater good can alter that inconvenient truth.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• But Orange Group met on an inconvenient day of the week.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The problem, partly, is that the history is inconvenient: The last Lehman to head up the firm died in 1969.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• It was held in the wrong place at an inconvenient time and was staged by a repressive host.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Why are shin splints so painful? Shin splints can be both painful and inconvenient.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• This hands the hedge fund powers that could be very inconvenient for PMI.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The White House should treat them as such, inconvenient as that may be to its dream of a nuclear deal.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Passing out in the wrong place or at the wrong time can be inconvenient and dangerous.
  — Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Apr. 2024
• The scramble for chips has turned into a glut at an inconvenient time.
  — Jacky Wong, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Pebbles fell out of the tube in an inconvenient part of the rover — the carousel where the drilling bits are stored — and that required weeks of troubleshooting to clean away the debris.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• But these policies are inconvenient by design: Pain is the point.
  — Hirsh Chitkara, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2023
• Some residents who were far away from the scene complained about the inconvenient time and sound of the alarm and asked for ways to turn them off on social media.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
• That process was inconvenient for both me as the real estate agent, but also for the buyers and sellers.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• When a vet bill is thousands of dollars, that wait can be inconvenient, if not stressful.
  — Kat Tretina, wsj.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• Folks who’ve dealt with the Sanders team in the past have pointed out that Coach Prime, like all powerful men, pays people to make inconvenient things go away.
  — Sean Keeler, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
• The one issue with the super old ones is that they can get stuck, which is inconvenient, and toggle switches rarely have that problem.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 5 Jan. 2023
• While seen as inconvenient and a bit of a nuisance, fish flies are an indication of healthy lakes.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
• What to Consider: Some skiers find pullovers inconvenient to take off and on, and the large brand logo on the arm is a little obtrusive.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• No matter how cute your dog or cat might be, shedding is tiresome and just inconvenient to deal with.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 12 July 2023
• It’s about people who can’t hide and who refuse to hide the parts of themselves that are inconvenient for mainstream society.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2022
• The ban on credit cards might have seemed inconvenient to some customers, but those who showed up without enough cash or a checkbook were told the bill could be mailed to their homes.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• The fact that traits are passed from parent to child was an inconvenient truth to those apparatchiks trying to craft the New Soviet Man.
  — WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• The rent is too high—a hundred and fifteen million U.S. dollars a year—and operating on foreign soil can be inconvenient.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• And with the gig economy reshaping the workforce, the traditional medical practice’s hours are inconvenient for many workers.
  — Karen E. Knudsen, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024