English example sentences with "expedient"

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
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Myrtale was convinced in her own mind that as Dryas had to deal with so many rich suitors, he would never consent to Chloe marrying Daphnis; and considered that she had devised the best expedient possible for disposing of the subject of the marriage.
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Such problems do exist in Interlingua, but it seemed expedient to treat them in connection with the various parts of speech whose functions in the sentence can be made to involve all syntactic questions of practical import.
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Never lie if the truth is more expedient.
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