How to Use expediency in a Sentence

expediency

noun
  • Not good enough to warrant expediency, at least.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • How much genuine pathos, and how much savvy self-concern, expediency?
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • Which is to say, it was born out of expediency, rather than religious passion.
    — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The chain will squeeze expediency from other corners as well.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The defendants' lack of expediency was a breach of the standard of care.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This creates expediency, but comes at the cost of not knowing what the full market has to offer.
    — Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • But your husband and mother-in-law are both choosing expediency all the way to misery.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The expediency of the ending does a lot to dodge the many questions left unresolved.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
  • But the three in the goals-for ledger must start ticking upward with the expediency of a bouncer’s counter on a busy weekend night.
    — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • The Democrats should thank their stars that some people still put the rule of law ahead of political expediency.
    — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Time, neglect, and expediency did a number on both structures.
    — Curbed, 9 June 2023
  • That now appears to have been entirely brushed aside in the name of political expediency and the search for peace.
    — Melissa Bell, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Some claim that expediency, and not nuance, should be the priority.
    — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To be sure, Americans have had small families for quite some time, and life expediency has increased.
    — Steven Camarota, National Review, 8 July 2019
  • The group is also the choice of expediency, since Russia offers troops, weapons, and training with no strings attached.
    — Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 11 May 2023
  • Skeptics have noted in these pages that these Democrats flipped on school choice for political expediency.
    — Corey Deangelis, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But another factor driving this consensus is the sheer appeal of unity, as well as the expediency of it.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Grier was explicit about the risks of forgoing process in exchange for expediency.
    — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And there are a lot of people within Biden world that feel that that decision was made for political expediency.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 May 2025
  • That expediency is leading Johnson into the arms of the White House.
    — Luke Reader, The Conversation, 24 July 2019
  • 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

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