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
• But lab tests are inconvenient for the people who take them, and very often slow.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The birth of a child in the middle of a college football career seems like inconvenient timing.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2021
• That part of the story is inconvenient to a pat narrative.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• The moon becomes inconvenient once a month, and for December, the risk has already passed.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Reality check: The game times are inconvenient for Tigers fans in school or with 9am-5pm jobs.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The book does not mention this inconvenient fact, among many others.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• 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
• And while any October job losses would likely be temporary, the timing of the report — typically the first Friday of the month — is especially inconvenient for the Harris camp.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024