How to Use prudence in a Sentence

prudence

noun

• He always exercises prudence with his finances.
• Strength and prudence are not the same thing.
  — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
• Posey seems to want to pass this off as prudence.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
• What abundance in your faces, what prudence in your steady gait!
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• This time, prudence with such planning would be sage.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2026
• This is not the time for fiscal prudence for the Sharks.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Action is delayed in the name of prudence.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• But the Redskins so far don’t see the prudence of pulling the trigger now.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
• The one that looks killer — guaranteed to score a date, yet worn with extreme prudence.
  — Janine Schaults, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Pro-lifers should respond to this defeat with courage and prudence.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 Aug. 2022
• But fiscal and monetary prudence has to be a key part of the package.
  — Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2022
• Mark was more than suited for the task with his attention to detail and prudence.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
• Now the rules of the workplace demand a different type of prudence for all but the elite.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
• But with the club’s gross debt now over $1 billion, that is no way to advocate for prudence.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021
• Milder slowdowns have scared the government off the path of prudence before.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Passion provides the driving force, while prudence acts as the guiding hand.
  — Somdutta Singh, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Her only success was to make Johnson look like a model of prudence.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• But Hunt handles it with prudence and skill in Across Five Aprils.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022
• But over the past few years consumers across the region have done their best to prove that prudence was perhaps just a passing phase.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• And at this point, asking for even a tiny bit more prudence and patience is simply screaming into the void.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2021
• And yet many outside observers saw in Iran’s attack a degree of prudence.
  — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024
• This was a chance for Biden to take the high road, to toe the fiscal line and display financial prudence.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
• Coach Erik Spoelstra said prudence required the team to give Lowry the past week off.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2022
• The Bolt strikes the best balance between helpful hands-free driving and prudence.
  — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• Many philosophers through the ages have spoken of virtues such as temperance, courage, justice and prudence.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2019
• European soccer is rarely a model of economic prudence even in the best of times.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
• The bird may not be an allegory of goodness, or mercy, love or prudence, but owls are wise, and this one has its eyes open.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• The two officials were elected last March on a platform of change and fiscal prudence.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
• In this view, procrastination could indicate the vice of sloth or the virtue of prudence.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• It is said that speed kills, but that prudence and a will to survive can dissuade the Grim Reaper from doing his thing.
  — latimes.com, 12 July 2018