How to use "expedient" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "expedient" in popular movie and book plots

Clark would later learn that Lex was talking about pragmatism, about what's expedient instead of what's true. - Superman: Grounded
Ultimately a wary truce is brokered between the two sides and Koshay, finding himself a marked man, finds it expedient to flee Vishnu. - The Animal-Cracker Plot
Hua Wuque is righteous but naive, while Xiaoyu'er is expedient and cunning. - Juedai Shuangjiao
Ensign Siegel defuses the situation by the simple expedient of letting the men have their weekly beer ration whenever they want. - Don't Go Near the Water (novel)
Holmes knows that this is not true, but it is expedient to use the press to convince the culprit that this is what the investigators believe. - The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Sometimes, however, Judge Dee finds it expedient to go out incognito and carry out an investigation in disguise. - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

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