Example sentences for: expedient

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

  • Where some Holocaust experts, such as Hilberg and Martin Broszat, depicted it as a "complex and contingent event," other writers, such as Lucy Davidowicz, found it more "politically expedient" to focus on anti-Semitism, especially as Israel came under increasing censure.

  • There is, however, an expedient familiar to conjurers as “changing a card,” which, with a little modification, is extensively used by the cardsharping fraternity under the name of “second dealing.”

  • 4) The House will opt for censure because, while toothless and not specified in the Constitution, it's expedient.

  • ) According to Finkelstein, Goldhagen's claim that all forms of anti-Semitism "tend toward a genocidal 'solution' " is expedient in this way, and therefore popular--though Finkelstein says Goldhagen adds no more than a veneer of social science sophistication to this reductionist point of view.

  • 3) The impeachment vote will fail, and the House will reject censure as a compromise because, while expedient, it's toothless and not specified in the Constitution.


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