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
  • 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 rally is most inconvenient for foreign investors and strategists who remain on the sidelines/underweight China due to the US election.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the inconvenient timing, the World Series games have been must-see viewing for many in Japan, where baseball was wildly popular even before Ohtani’s rise.
    Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024

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