How to Use inconvenience in a Sentence
- Bridge repairs cannot be done without some inconvenience to the public.
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It’s been more than an inconvenience for many of us for a year-and-a-half.
—Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2023
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But for the price that’s being paid, many find the inconvenience worth it.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
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Sorry for the inconveniences to my fan the last few weeks.
—Country Living Staff, Country Living, 26 Aug. 2023
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But is the sparing of that inconvenience worth the risks that still remain?
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2024
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This lowers the cost and the inconvenience of the procedure.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
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The short-term inconvenience will be worth it for everyone in the long run.
—Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
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Dave Rasmussen has learned to deal with the small inconveniences that life lobs at him.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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For some on skid row, the storm was a bearable inconvenience.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
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To save space, the layout omits the bathroom sink, which some people might find to be a bit of an inconvenience.
—Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 16 May 2023
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Madonna regrets the inconvenience to fans and hopes to make it up to those markets in the future.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2023
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One downside of the lock-and-key approach is the inconvenience of asking a store employee to open the glass doors.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
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When the match had to be delayed by a year due to Covid-19, the affair became mostly an inconvenience.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
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And if that leads to occasional inconvenience, that's the price of art.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 3 Dec. 2022
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Many believe the inconvenience of changing a clock twice a year is worth it for the opportunity to start the day in the sun.
—Devika Rao, The Week, 4 Nov. 2022
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But within a few hours, mere inconvenience gave way to frantic and chaotic scenes across the city.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
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And the clogged roads seemed a minor inconvenience given the cause: President Biden was in town.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
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The money given to the donor, the ARSM says, is not a sale, but compensation for the time, inconvenience, and demands of the process.
—Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
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Beyond these daily inconveniences for the 3,000 people who work in the building is the risk of a major fire or flood.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
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The rain was an inconvenience, but in Black Rock City, people show up for each other, and that was on full display.
—Asli Pelit, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
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Our apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
—Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
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But those are mere inconveniences compared to the antitrust case.
—Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
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For the man who loves to suit up While travel comes with a slew of unsolvable inconveniences, a wrinkled suit is not one of them.
—Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 10 Nov. 2023
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Even with the smoothest shopping, there’s still the risk of waste, of disappointment, of future inconvenience, of money lost to the fine print.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
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Usually the inconvenience lasts a month or two, maybe three.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
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The idea that hot weather could be a killer, not just an inconvenience, was impressed on much of Europe by a deadly 2003 heat wave.
—Colleen Barry and Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
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The bungalows are about a 30-minute walk out of Hanga Roa, but the coastal views along the way — and welcome drinks upon arrival — make up for any inconvenience.
—Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
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Such a privileged inconvenience is further scored by the screams of a woman right outside the shop.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
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And plenty of women remain dissatisfied with the inconveniences and risks that come with the choices at hand.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
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This mere inconvenience for most people can be a serious or even life-threatening mistake for people who have a soy allergy or wheat allergy.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
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What was clear was that Cuomo did not want to inconvenience them in any way.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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Work around their schedules to find a time and method of skill-sharing that won’t inconvenience them.
—Alex Janin, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
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Taking a few minutes to inconvenience yourself in the present could save you larger headaches down the road.
—Kristin Wong, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
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Don’t even think about inconveniencing your athletes and fans for the sake of some other time zone.
—Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
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Some were afraid, some were hopeful, and some simply felt inconvenienced by the delay.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
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With the sun shining, not a wisp of smoke in the air and only gentle breezes, the historic action was condemned by those who were inconvenienced.
—CBS News, 9 Oct. 2019
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With the sun shining outdoors, not a wisp of smoke in the air and only gentle breezes, the action was condemned by many of those whose lives were inconvenienced.
—Time, 10 Oct. 2019
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You might be inconvenienced for three days without your car.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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But inconveniencing fans is the norm in sports these days, and boxing is no exception.
—Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
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The goal of the tool is to help connecting customers while not inconveniencing others.
—Adrienne Jordan, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
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While we were inconvenienced over gasoline, many have lost everything on the coast.
—Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 8 Sep. 2017
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Or only make changes that don’t inconvenience their lives?
—David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
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None of the justices should feel insulted or inconvenienced by the need to protect their own integrity — on which rests the rule of law itself.
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
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But this shift is still likely to inconvenience some people.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 12 June 2019
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This is true even when the ticket holder finds the timing inconveniencing.
—Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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There's no word on how many visitors might have been inconvenienced.
—Scott Craven, azcentral, 16 July 2019
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The Chicano movement was in full force and inconveniencing the status quo.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
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Still, the staff at the board didn’t want to inconvenience Schmidt by making him wait for his department support team to arrive on commercial flights.
—James Bandler, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2019
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Annoyed and inconvenienced, Zhenya and Boris must tolerate each other while police search for the boy.
—Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
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The Pendergast sick-out, which inconvenienced parents of thousands of schoolchildren, was the first action of its kind.
—Ricardo Cano, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
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But while many Hong Kongers have been inconvenienced by transport shutdowns and other travel disruptions, there is little sense of danger in the rest of the city.
—Tara John, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
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And that may just be one of the most important things to remember: these changes to the school atmosphere are not being made to inconvenience or frustrate anyone.
—Leah Campbell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
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Hamstrung by the need to ensure that their kids don’t inconvenience anyone else, parents can’t do much parenting at all.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
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That CBDCs might inconvenience these sociopaths is not a minus, but a plus.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
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The shoot likely inconvenienced hikers, as Beyonce and her crew were allowed exclusive access to the falls and its turquoise pools.
—USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
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And, there were many other customers who were inconvenienced that understandably wanted to talk to us over the weekend.
—Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
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Among those inconvenienced was 16-year-old Tanish Chauhan.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
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Postponing again would inconvenience two key Olympic sports that already moved their 2021 world championships to make space for Tokyo.
—Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
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While most patrons had come to take part in the tradition, others were surprised — and in some cases, modestly inconvenienced by it.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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That arguing with people who inconvenienced themselves to make sure their classmate was okay, which is what your friends did, is not just rude, but also shortsighted.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
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