How to Use prudent in a Sentence

prudent

adjective

• You made a prudent choice.
• He always listened to her prudent advice.
• The latter would be at once the courageous and the prudent course.
  — David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• This is the wise and prudent course for any baseball fan.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• When that happened, the prudent thing to do was shut it down.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
• On the one hand, the urgency to prepare for the fall may be prudent.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• Of course, there are prudent steps to take when planting.
  — Catie Marron, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• When the chance comes to climb the ladder to a bigger league, the prudent coach starts packing.
  — Timothy Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2018
• The prudent thing to do would be to go ahead and file an official report.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The most prudent thing to do is wait and see what impact all the record increases to date have had.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• But that wouldn’t have been prudent, because the Post has a union.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• So it’s still about being prudent and thoughtful about what the deal is.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• Engaging an outside partner to come in and help was the prudent thing to do.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Cowboys had more turnovers and penalties than were prudent.
  — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
• A little bit of lottery luck may be the team's most prudent path back to contention.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 28 Mar. 2023
• But Lloyd points out the founder's drinking was prudent, too.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Testing the first ship before buying more of them would be prudent.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• But there also has to be a prudent, consistent plan in place for how to go about it.
  — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Further study and a healthy debate about what to do seems only prudent.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 May 2017
• As long as the smoke alarms work and the fire escapes aren't boarded up, that also seems prudent.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• In an era of rising seas, we are primed to think of coastal protections as prudent.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• Therefore the only prudent thing to do is to cancel all future shows.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
• Beyond that, setting aside a sliver of your cash for a rainy day is prudent.
  — Suchita Nayar, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Banks must be allowed to take prudent risks and earn rewards for taking them.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 27 Feb. 2017
• An endless war is not always the most moral or the most prudent course of action.
  — Richard A. Posner, New Republic, 2 Sept. 2002
• In the long term, such evaluations may well be prudent.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• So Shell has to coax investors along with a mix of hard cash and prudent investments.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Perhaps renting is a prudent approach if the city must have five pension fiefs.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Experts widely agree that playing it safe in the coming weeks is prudent.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2021
• Kentucky's approach might be the more prudent way forward.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024