Explore Prudent through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like wise or provident. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Prudent in a sentence
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Prudent meaning
- Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
- Practically wise, judicious, shrewd.
- Frugal, economical.
Synonyms of Prudent
Using Prudent
- The main meaning on this page is: Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct. | Practically wise, judicious, shrewd. | Frugal, economical.
- Useful related words include: wise, provident, responsible, careful.
- In the example corpus, prudent often appears in combinations such as: prudent to, be prudent, prudent and.
Context around Prudent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prudent
- In this selection, "prudent" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, financially, terribly, felt, thing, reason and option stand out and add context to how "prudent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actually a prudent move and be a prudent option considering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prudent" sits close to words such as cartoons, clinched and greenville, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prudent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But it is actually a prudent move. (7 words)
All that matters is what’s possible, not what’s prudent. (11 words)
Another benefit of starting repayment early is to develop financially prudent habits. (12 words)
All I want to emphasize is that amnesty as a means of recovering assets and resolving some complex corruption cases can be a prudent option considering the past experiences where cases have dragged on in courts with no reasonable outcome. (40 words)
After its disappointing move to a V6 twin-turbo engine layout in both its S and GTS Cayenne models in recent years, the Stuttgart brand has found it prudent to return to form by reintroducing the V8 engines. (38 words)
And again, I think the IRS is trying to do a prudent thing to tamp down on fraud and also to make sure these small businesses are not getting bad advice from these pop-up firms. (36 words)
These moves to fortify shareholder loyalty ahead of potential market downturn are prudent, but is it more prudent to sell trillion-dollar stocks ahead of that scenario? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
These moves to fortify shareholder loyalty ahead of potential market downturn are prudent, but is it more prudent to sell trillion-dollar stocks ahead of that scenario?
When he did that all the people who thought it was the prudent thing to do, started realizing that he wasnt doing it for the prudent reason.
According to Barron’s, past inflation and jobs data argued for continued interest rate hikes, while the recent banking crisis indicated a pause would be prudent.
After its disappointing move to a V6 twin-turbo engine layout in both its S and GTS Cayenne models in recent years, the Stuttgart brand has found it prudent to return to form by reintroducing the V8 engines.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, on the other hand, to be prudent rather than embark on a spending binge.
All I want to emphasize is that amnesty as a means of recovering assets and resolving some complex corruption cases can be a prudent option considering the past experiences where cases have dragged on in courts with no reasonable outcome.
All that matters is what’s possible, not what’s prudent.
All this was happening when the parastatals are struggling financially and to be asking them now and again to fund these meetings was not prudent,” he said.
And again, I think the IRS is trying to do a prudent thing to tamp down on fraud and also to make sure these small businesses are not getting bad advice from these pop-up firms.
And that's just part of us being prudent because we want to demonstrate to all of you that this is a business that grows 8% to 12%.
Another benefit of starting repayment early is to develop financially prudent habits.
Another effect of this prudent and impartial way of acting on the part of the Holy See on that occasion was that all the Cuban bishops were able to participate in the imminent Second Vatican Council.
As a fundamental investor, it is prudent to adjust investment decision on a timely basis.
A scuba diving or bungee jumping trip has a much higher risk factor than a weekend away to visit family, so investing in trip insurance may be prudent because so many things could go wrong.
At the Manhattan Beach City Council meeting on Tuesday, February 7, it would be prudent for our council to reconsider their Highrose project decision, once again.
Based on those stout UConn numbers, taking San Diego State on Monday night doesn’t seem terribly prudent.
But again, if we do realize that we are underlevered compared to the target leverage ratio that I said, and -- we've been -- I think we've shown to be very prudent with M&A.
But it is actually a prudent move.
But just in our review, we felt prudent to remove those from the order book.
But when the long-running Boulder festival returned in August 2021, it was more prudent to program the purely orchestral Fifth Symphony.
Common combinations with prudent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prudent to 39×
- be prudent 28×
- prudent and 16×
- is prudent 14×
- and prudent 14×
- more prudent 9×
- the prudent 8×
- it prudent 6×
- prudent for 6×
- very prudent 6×