Sentence examples for the expedient from inspiring English sources
noun
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
In Harley's case the expedient approach would be to cut prices to keep market share.
It is the expedient outcome of an administrative change that partly explains its neutral character.
The expedient and decisive measures taken by Chrysler and Aflac in light of their recent online missteps, therefore, are commendable.
She has been cast as the hack, the soul-seller, the expedient manipulator of self-interested deal-making.
This may be interpreted as the expedient equivocating of a nonetheless reform-minded official, but it is not reassuring.
For non-VIPs, the expedient alternative is to take what could be labelled the "Axis of Evil" tour.
Why that should have anything to do with the expedient way Olympic decisions are made beats me.
The recourse to Mao is an example of the expedient populism that insecure ruling classes resort to.
Diem neutralized the religious sects by the expedient of having Lansdale use C.I.A. funds to buy them off.
"The Queen is long past being shocked by the expedient dictates of foreign policy and commercial interests," Michael White, a columnist, wrote in The Guardian.
Easel paintings were limited in size, which chafed at Lawrence's ambition to undertake epic themes, and led him to the expedient of painting in narrative series.
