CONVENIENT in a Sentence

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Some tossed them unconcernedly down; others hid them carefully, asserting their plans to return for them at some convenient time.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVENIENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
convenient
 a.  suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs; accessible
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  It's more convenient than going to England.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Nor can I masquerade in a cloak of romance and patriotism, no matter how convenient it might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  It was so convenient to have a man about the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  At first it had annoyed her and she had tried to break down that nonchalance but soon she had come to accept it as a very convenient thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
5  For a week the prospect had lighted up Miss Stepney's colourless existence; then she had been given to understand that it would be more convenient to have her another day.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  However inadequate the rest of the house, he had seen to it that the fundamental cellar should be large and clean, the square pillars whitewashed, and the bins for coal and potatoes and trunks convenient.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
8  You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenient closet of your watch-coat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
9  Your hat, however, is the most convenient.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
10  He walked off eating the pie, as the least convenient thing to carry.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  It was a convenient, and, I trust, will prove a peaceful grave for a soldier.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
12  Some tossed them unconcernedly down; others hid them carefully, asserting their plans to return for them at some convenient time.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  The youth nestled in it and rested, making a convenient rail support the flag.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  Ye see," said Marks to Haley, stirring his punch as he did so, "ye see, we has justices convenient at all p'ints along shore, that does up any little jobs in our line quite reasonable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  The town is well placed for easy access to London and convenient for Heathrow Airport.
2  He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
3  True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not.
4  It is very convenient to pay by credit card.
5  Fruit is a convenient source of vitamins and energy.
6  There wasn't even a convenient place for students to assemble between classes.
7  You'll find these meals quick and convenient to prepare.
8  The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing, rather than as based on Apostolic succession.
9  Our local shop has very convenient opening hours.
10  The meeting must be held at a time convenient for working mothers.
11  The job of chairman can no longer be regarded as a convenient soft option.
12  The bus stop around the corner is probably the most convenient.
13  I find the new system much more convenient.
14  Dustan has a record of switching sides when convenient, and there are many Taliban supporters who would do likewise if the fortunes of the puritan militia are on the decline.
15  Dostam has a record of switching sides when convenient, and there are many supporters who would do likewise.