INCONVENIENCE in a Sentence

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The preparations meanwhile went on, and Lady Bertram continued to sit on her sofa without any inconvenience from them.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCONVENIENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inconvenience
 n.  a difficulty that causes anxiety
 v.  to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Yet such was the virtue of Miriam's balsam, or such the strength of Ivanhoe's constitution, that he did not sustain from the hurried journey that inconvenience which his kind physician had apprehended.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  I am not one of those that spare their own trouble; and Nanny shall fetch her, however it may put me to inconvenience to have my chief counsellor away for three days.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Miss Crawford made her first essay with great credit to herself, and no inconvenience to Fanny.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  The preparations meanwhile went on, and Lady Bertram continued to sit on her sofa without any inconvenience from them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Her son answered cheerfully, telling her that everything was always for the best; and making light of his own inconvenience in being obliged to hurry away so soon.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  Whoever suffered inconvenience, she must suffer none, but it occupied a little time to settle the point of civility between the other two.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  But do not inconvenience yourself about it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
9  But Venn went on without much inconvenience to himself, and the course of his scamper was towards the Quiet Woman Inn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
10  "O, that's no inconvenience," said Clym, smiling rather sadly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
11  It is to recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the very heads of your profession.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
12  I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I do not inconvenience you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
13  Then, as to sitting here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that need cause you no inconvenience.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
14  But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Don't fancy that you will be any inconvenience to me, for I shan't put myself at all out of my way for you.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
Example Sentence:
1  The rail strike is likely to cause considerable public inconvenience.
2  It is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen.
3  Further environmental legislation could be politically inconvenient for the government.