Example Sentences

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For a time it appeared that Washington was prepared to buy into this set of expedients.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2015

All the things we did were great expedients, given the terrible problems we had, and it’s working after a fashion.

From Forbes • Apr. 13, 2015

While many such initiatives may have set out with good intentions to be the former, it seems that commercial expedients are increasingly forcing them to become the latter.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013

These expedients would work, but they’d be horrendously inefficient compared with the modern agricultural, packaging, and transportation methods.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2012

He resented having “to resort to temporary expedients merely to make a poor show for the opening.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson