How to Use prudent in a Sentence

prudent

adjective
  • You made a prudent choice.
  • He always listened to her prudent advice.
  • Some time away from the sport seemed prudent.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • That’s the most prudent path here.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
  • When that happened, the prudent thing to do was shut it down.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The Bar was prudent to not pursue that.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The latter would be at once the courageous and the prudent course.
    — David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • But Lloyd points out the founder's drinking was prudent, too.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But that wouldn’t have been prudent, because the Post has a union.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
  • There’s a time when investments run their course and the prudent move is to cash out.
    — Lauren Chomiuk, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The prudent thing to do would be to go ahead and file an official report.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • On the one hand, the urgency to prepare for the fall may be prudent.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • Trading back removed a lot of drama, but was the prudent way to go.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Beyond that, setting aside a sliver of your cash for a rainy day is prudent.
    — Suchita Nayar, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Testing the first ship before buying more of them would be prudent.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • But there also has to be a prudent, consistent plan in place for how to go about it.
    — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • In an era of rising seas, we are primed to think of coastal protections as prudent.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • A little bit of lottery luck may be the team's most prudent path back to contention.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Cowboys had more turnovers and penalties than were prudent.
    — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • At this point, a prudent President would have stayed silent.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • When the chance comes to climb the ladder to a bigger league, the prudent coach starts packing.
    — Timothy Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2018
  • The most prudent thing to do is wait and see what impact all the record increases to date have had.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That's prudent, but louvered walls are the same as no walls at all where weather is concerned.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
  • But Trocheck could remain their best, most prudent option.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • As long as the smoke alarms work and the fire escapes aren't boarded up, that also seems prudent.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Keeping their core together seems like a prudent move.
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 24 June 2026
  • Engaging an outside partner to come in and help was the prudent thing to do.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The prudent move is likely a quiet deadline or maybe a cheap depth upgrade.
    — The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Will the new brokers and wielders of power be more prudent and restrained?
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • So Shell has to coax investors along with a mix of hard cash and prudent investments.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019

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