How to Use inconvenient in a Sentence

inconvenient

adjective
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  • The restaurant is in an inconvenient location.
  • The fact that Georgia holds runoffs was inconvenient for the GOP in 2020.
    — Aaron Blake, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But an eclipse dims the sun much faster and can do it at an inconvenient time of day.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • One of the most inconvenient parts of owning a hand mixer is the cord.
    — Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023
  • And while inconvenient, tantrums cannot and should not be stopped—so long as your child is safe.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Aug. 2023
  • No amount of talk about the greater good can alter that inconvenient truth.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But Orange Group met on an inconvenient day of the week.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The problem, partly, is that the history is inconvenient: The last Lehman to head up the firm died in 1969.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • It was held in the wrong place at an inconvenient time and was staged by a repressive host.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • This hands the hedge fund powers that could be very inconvenient for PMI.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The scramble for chips has turned into a glut at an inconvenient time.
    — Jacky Wong, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But these policies are inconvenient by design: Pain is the point.
    — Hirsh Chitkara, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2023
  • When a vet bill is thousands of dollars, that wait can be inconvenient, if not stressful.
    — Kat Tretina, wsj.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The one issue with the super old ones is that they can get stuck, which is inconvenient, and toggle switches rarely have that problem.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 5 Jan. 2023
  • While seen as inconvenient and a bit of a nuisance, fish flies are an indication of healthy lakes.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
  • What to Consider: Some skiers find pullovers inconvenient to take off and on, and the large brand logo on the arm is a little obtrusive.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
  • No matter how cute your dog or cat might be, shedding is tiresome and just inconvenient to deal with.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 12 July 2023
  • The fact that traits are passed from parent to child was an inconvenient truth to those apparatchiks trying to craft the New Soviet Man.
    — WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The sizes range from XXS to 22 Plus and while the swimsuit runs mostly true to size, the top and bottom come in the same size, which is a bit inconvenient for those with differing top and bottom sizes.
    — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
  • While some of them were busy practicing and in the studio in the clip, others were caught at inconvenient times, like relaxing on the beach or using the bathroom.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Pretty much every tween has had a pimple pop up at the most inconvenient time ever.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The results are a little inconvenient for the EV evangelist.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Whether this is to an inconvenient level, as the meme amusingly implies, remains to be seen.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • And then there’s the simple, inconvenient fact that so many of them are under legal scrutiny.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Fabrizio added that the closures aren't just inconvenient for people who have to drive farther to fill a prescription.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Moreover, an inconvenient truth is that most people don’t want EVs.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • That’s a terribly inconvenient place for an outlet, leaving you with an eternity of scooching one end of the couch away from the wall to finagle a plug.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
  • That said, email responses sometimes take up to 48 hours, which can be inconvenient.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • His only loyalty is to the truth, however inconvenient that truth might prove to be.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023

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