Example Sentences

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It would result in revealing “the identities of all of Plaintiff’s clients, contractors and vendors, most of whom have zero relevance or pertinency to HSPCI’s ‘Russia investigation.’”

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2017

The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered.

From Time Magazine Archive

The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the pertinency of this question to the present treatise the author has been deeply sensible, and therefore cannot forbear a few prefatory words of explanation of his object and method.

From The Basis of Early Christian Theism by Cole, Lawrence Thomas

The Court of St. James, it was called, with an obvious but happy pertinency.

From The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow by Grant, Robert