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How to use prudent in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective

Prudent means sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct. Example: “It is prudent to consult a physician before beginning any new exercise regimen.”

Examples of prudent by meaning

adjectiveSagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.

  • It is prudent to consult a physician before beginning any new exercise regimen.

adjectivePractically wise, judicious, shrewd.

  • His prudent career moves reliably brought him to the top.
  • Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60

adjectiveFrugal; economical; not extravagant.

  • Only prudent expenditure may provide quality within a restrictive budget.

More sentences with prudent

  • A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.From the entry liberality
  • Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn.2020 July 30, David Zweig, “$25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic”, in New York Times. From the entry tableau
  • It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340. From the entry ballet
  • I remember the day I used the word discrete (distinct) when I meant discreet (prudent).2010, Roy Peter Clark, The Glamour of Grammar. From the entry homonymphobia
  • Is there a place for being prudent, frugal, and thrifty with the one we love in marriage?2000, Les Parrott, Leslie Parrott, “A Penny Saved is Sometimes Chintzy”, in Meditations on Proverbs for Couples, Grand Rapids, Mich.…. From the entry chintzy
  • When uncertain the prudent man steps back, degears, and waits for better opportunities that is my message in a nutshell.2014, John Piper, Financial Cataclysm Now!, →ISBN. From the entry degear
  • A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around.2009 January 21, Joe Fiorito, “Tamil dance fine gesture even for our crop of snow”, in Toronto Star. From the entry hasta
  • Prudent man rules also require that greater financial and legal responsibility be attached to any imprudent action by corporate officers.2005, World Bank with International Monetary Fund, Financial sector assessment: a handbook, page 455. From the entry prudent man rule
  • Eventually, though, the committee found that, in the name of prudent management, they had, essentially, “lobotomized” the firm.2003, Peter Piven, Bradford Perkins, Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm. From the entry lobotomize
  • Energetic trenchermanship was a prudent form of preventative medicine.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 234. From the entry trenchermanship
  • Consequently, depersonalizing and disinflaming the situation are prudent tactics: maintain a calm demeanor, look confident, and remain assertive.1999, Rosemary O'Leary, Managing for the Environment, page 125. From the entry disinflame
  • So is it not prudent to install metal detectors in airports to try to prevent Lockerbies and Oklahoma Cities?1996, Joseba Zulaika, William A. Douglass, Terror and taboo: the follies, fables, and faces of terrorism, page 9. From the entry Lockerbie
  • Department stores are shunned by prudent housewives.1968, Max Gunther, “The Weekend World”, in Norman F. Cantor, Michael S. Werthman, editors, The History of Popular Culture, The Macmillan…. From the entry datewear
  • 'Twas the prudent member gave me the wheeze.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page…. From the entry sweat of one's brow
  • It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory.2018, Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts. From the entry jurisprudent
  • They command precise and prudent readings.2011, Richard Kearney, Kascha Semonovitch, Phenomenologies of the Stranger, page 3. From the entry demitone
  • It might be prudent for us to unacquaint ourselves with what apparently won't work and reacquaint ourselves with the truths and promises of God's Word.2007, International Lesson Commentary KJV with NRSV Comparison, page 29. From the entry unacquaint
  • But even for that navy, with its strong tradition of offensive action, there were occasions when the fleet-in-being strategy was prudent and effective.1994, Colin S. Gray, The Navy in the Post-Cold War World: The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power, page 85. From the entry fleet in being
  • As stated earlier all post-op transsexuals live in a parallel world where it is prudent to keep information regarding one's transsexual status limited to only those who need to know.2010, Anne M. Vitale, The Gendered Self. From the entry post-op
  • The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger.c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R. Mergenhagen, case before the Supreme Court of New York, appellate division, fourth department…. From the entry expectable

Meaning of prudent

  1. adjective Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
  2. adjective Practically wise, judicious, shrewd.
  3. adjective Frugal; economical; not extravagant.

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Questions about prudent in a sentence

How do you use prudent in a sentence?
Prudent is used as an adjective. For example: “It is prudent to consult a physician before beginning any new exercise regimen.”
What is a short sentence with prudent?
“They command precise and prudent readings.”
What does prudent mean?
Prudent means sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.

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