How to Use inconvenience in a Sentence

inconvenience

1 of 2 noun

• Parking in the city can be a major inconvenience.
• Bridge repairs cannot be done without some inconvenience to the public.
• I hope this delay doesn't cause you any inconvenience.
• The delay was an inconvenience.
• It’s been more than an inconvenience for many of us for a year-and-a-half.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2023
• But for the price that’s being paid, many find the inconvenience worth it.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
• Sorry for the inconveniences to my fan the last few weeks.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 26 Aug. 2023
• But is the sparing of that inconvenience worth the risks that still remain?
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2024
• This lowers the cost and the inconvenience of the procedure.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• The short-term inconvenience will be worth it for everyone in the long run.
  — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
• Dave Rasmussen has learned to deal with the small inconveniences that life lobs at him.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• For some on skid row, the storm was a bearable inconvenience.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And if that leads to occasional inconvenience, that's the price of art.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 3 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• And the clogged roads seemed a minor inconvenience given the cause: President Biden was in town.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
  — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
• But those are mere inconveniences compared to the antitrust case.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Usually the inconvenience lasts a month or two, maybe three.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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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inconvenience

2 of 2 verb

• I wouldn't want to inconvenience you.
• We were inconvenienced by the bad weather.
• What was clear was that Cuomo did not want to inconvenience them in any way.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Work around their schedules to find a time and method of skill-sharing that won’t inconvenience them.
  — Alex Janin, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Taking a few minutes to inconvenience yourself in the present could save you larger headaches down the road.
  — Kristin Wong, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Some were afraid, some were hopeful, and some simply felt inconvenienced by the delay.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• You might be inconvenienced for three days without your car.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• But inconveniencing fans is the norm in sports these days, and boxing is no exception.
  — Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• The goal of the tool is to help connecting customers while not inconveniencing others.
  — Adrienne Jordan, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
• While we were inconvenienced over gasoline, many have lost everything on the coast.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 8 Sep. 2017
• Or only make changes that don’t inconvenience their lives?
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• 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
• But this shift is still likely to inconvenience some people.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 12 June 2019
• This is true even when the ticket holder finds the timing inconveniencing.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• There's no word on how many visitors might have been inconvenienced.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 16 July 2019
• The Chicano movement was in full force and inconveniencing the status quo.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• 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
• Annoyed and inconvenienced, Zhenya and Boris must tolerate each other while police search for the boy.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
• The Pendergast sick-out, which inconvenienced parents of thousands of schoolchildren, was the first action of its kind.
  — Ricardo Cano, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That CBDCs might inconvenience these sociopaths is not a minus, but a plus.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Among those inconvenienced was 16-year-old Tanish Chauhan.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 7 May 2024