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
• Here’s the inconvenient truth: The past decade’s strategies won’t work for the next decade.
  — Nida Leardprasopsuk, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Oh no, how inconvenient that the dress no one has seen won't arrive in time...
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• Why are shin splints so painful? Shin splints can be both painful and inconvenient.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• Follow the link to get to those (inconvenient) truths . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Aug. 2020
• This hands the hedge fund powers that could be very inconvenient for PMI.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The buttons: Testers noted that the controls on the hair dryer are out of reach and a bit inconvenient to press.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2021
• 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
• But facts have an inconvenient habit of getting in the way of our desires.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• Punk fame couldn’t have come at a more inconvenient time, as the quartet are in the thick of studying for finals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• 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
• Plus, most of them are too clunky and inconvenient for trips abroad and can only charge one device at a time.
  — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
• But lab tests are inconvenient for the people who take them, and very often slow.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• But these are the 2020s, and there is no need for inconvenient facts to humble a public figure.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 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
• Where wood fires are banned, or just inconvenient, this retro table-top option in glossy red evokes the airstream heyday of the 1960s.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2021
• In order to do so, however, the futon has to be moved away from the wall, which could be inconvenient.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Currently, the Celtics are in, well this sure is inconvenient, sixth place.
  — Hunter Felt, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Kane having to be withdrawn, more as a precaution, at half-time was deeply inconvenient.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025