inconveniently
Example Sentences
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Then came the inconveniently timed rain, which suspended play for almost an hour and ground the fourth set to a halt in a fourth-set tie-break - with Norrie three points from victory.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
“The beautiful multi-coloured ‘northern lights’—flickering shafts of light that lit up the sky—would at times, inconveniently for the Allies, provide just what the U- boat commanders needed to locate the convoys through their periscopes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Fire Station 93 was inconveniently located, about 70 miles from the Upland home he shared with his wife, Kim, and his stepdaughter, along with their hunting dog, four cats and a desert tortoise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Armrest cupholder: slightly inconveniently sized for my glass of rosé, which is exactly the level of problem one wants to encounter in life.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
“I would have left at once, but I was inconveniently ill. In the cold my lungs have been slow to clear.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
