ADEQUATE in a Sentence
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51 example sentences for ADEQUATE, such as:
1. We took adequate food for the holiday.
2. Prissy was not the most adequate of nurses.
3. They were at a loss for an adequate motive.
4. We had adequate food and drink for a week's journey.
5. Make sure that the firm's insurance cover is adequate.
2. Prissy was not the most adequate of nurses.
3. They were at a loss for an adequate motive.
4. We had adequate food and drink for a week's journey.
5. Make sure that the firm's insurance cover is adequate.
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Meanings and Examples of ADEQUATE
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adequate
a. having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
a. sufficient for the purpose
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
2 I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
3 In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code, in that interior kingdom, was adequate to account for the impulses now communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister.
4 can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence.
5 Prissy was not the most adequate of nurses.
6 Captain Peleg's bruited reason for this thing appeared by no means adequate; though, indeed, as touching all Ahab's deeper part, every revelation partook more of significant darkness than of explanatory light.
7 She had given reasons which he was unwilling to acknowledge as adequate.
8 He searched about in his mind for an adequate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.
9 Dear me, the parking arrangements are not what you might call adequate.
10 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
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11 I feel I have adequate cause to be happy, and I will be happy.
12 They were at a loss for an adequate motive.
13 But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
14 Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately accounted for it.
15 There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe.
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
2 Remember to bring clothes that provide adequate protection against the wind and rain.
3 Without adequate information, many students choose a college almost blindly.
4 It's your responsibility to arrange adequate cover for holiday periods.
5 The old methods weren't adequate to meet current needs.
6 In the course of researching customer needs, we discovered how few families have adequate life insurance.
7 Lincoln felt that McClellan had not allotted an adequate force to the defense of Washington.
8 An adequate environmental impact assessment was not carried out on the bypass project.
9 People can fight infection more easily if they have an adequate diet.
10 We had adequate food and drink for a week's journey.
11 We took adequate food for the holiday.
12 One in four people worldwide are without adequate homes.
13 Brown Institution trust funds were never adequate, but Twort preferred impecunious independence.
14 The Cabinet as an institution does not have an adequate bureaucratic infrastructure to enable it to perform a coordinating role.
15 Make sure that the firm's insurance cover is adequate.