How to Use expediency in a Sentence

expediency

noun

• The defendants' lack of expediency was a breach of the standard of care.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Democrats should thank their stars that some people still put the rule of law ahead of political expediency.
  — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• Then a court that valued expediency over the children’s safety moved them to a place they could never be loved.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
• That expediency is leading Johnson into the arms of the White House.
  — Luke Reader, The Conversation, 24 July 2019
• But your husband and mother-in-law are both choosing expediency all the way to misery.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• As a result of that frenzy to catch up, little attention is paid to what is moved and how it’s moved, opting for expediency over the right way to do it.
  — Ramesh Shurma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Those who opt for expediency can wager $5 on any fighter to win their bout at UFC 278 this weekend.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
• Which is to say, it was born out of expediency, rather than religious passion.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Some of the people who know Mr. Bezos said his new public face was for business expediency.
  — Nick Wingfield and Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Ibrahimi approached a medic and told him, for expediency’s sake, that the girl with a broken thigh bone was his sister and that the boy in the next room with a broken clavicle was his brother.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• The chain will squeeze expediency from other corners as well.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
• This is hardly the worst example of playing fast and loose with election laws for the sake of partisan expediency.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• The judge will walk both parties through the strengths and weaknesses of their cases, provide advice and, in the event there is a trial, help to narrow the focus for the purposes of expediency.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Satire was always a point of the show, but the fact that the family was tied together by something more than expediency, something that might on a good day be called love, was key to its success.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• In any political partnership with the rich, even one undertaken out of expediency, it’s the rich who are likely to get their way in the end.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 30 June 2020
• For expediency, the default access control list can be quickly changed to grant the world read access — and then it can be returned to the default just 30 minutes later.
  — Steve Riley, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• For the sake of expediency, our 42 choices do not include performances that are already sold out.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• To be sure, Americans have had small families for quite some time, and life expediency has increased.
  — Steven Camarota, National Review, 8 July 2019
• But expediency was kicked to the curb in favor of perfection, as both designers chased quality to the nth degree.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2022
• Yet Grotian had been urging expediency for weeks, writing four times to the chancellery and asking it to take charge of an expedited process.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• But critics of the company claim that expediency is a self-serving rationale that ignores wider harms to the internet as a whole.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• Voters are pretty cynical themselves and aren’t shocked when politicians veer to the low road for expediency.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Such lessons in expediency boil down to keeping their job while facing wrath from all sides, including Congress.
  — Noëlle McAfee, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
• Chirac never shed an image as an old-school party boss driven less by ideas and ideals than expediency and self-preservation.
  — Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Likewise, the expediency and efficiency of her training course to equip Zoe with handy survival skills.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
• But did the state learn from James’ harrowing case to conduct Miller’s execution with grace and expediency?
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• The bike can also learn your routine by analyzing your calendar and plotting the best routes, whether for scenery of expediency.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2017
• Pace said the space council opted for a bottom-up process in the name of expediency, rather than trying to create an international treaty.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 June 2018
• Instead it was rushed for political expediency, approved along strict partisan lines and, in my opinion, has severely missed the mark.
  — Erin Stewart, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2024
• While Trump often likes to take credit for that seismic judicial event, and calls himself the most pro-life president in history, kicking the issue over to the states can rightly be seen as an act of political cowardice and expediency.
  — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024