Example sentences for: expediency

How can you use “expediency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It must be remembered that many successful authors of yore were supported by patrons, and praising a wealthy and powerful individual in the days before democracy became popular was simply a matter of expediency.

  • New Hampshire State Senator Lou Allesandro, a Gore backer, was quoted yesterday in the Manchester Union-Leader saying that Bradley recently changed his position from pro-voucher to anti-voucher "for political expediency."

  • She's almost as saintly as her image, though she's increasingly torn between her principles and political expediency.

  • Putting votes before souls: Talk about political expediency!

  • No one had to work very hard to talk Clinton into accepting yet another abridgment of individual freedom for the sake of political expediency.


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