INADEQUATE in a Sentence
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30 example sentences for INADEQUATE, such as:
1. I felt totally inadequate as a parent.
2. He does not satisfy his inadequate income.
3. Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
4. Medical records were found to be grossly inadequate.
5. The system is inadequate for the tasks it has to perform.
2. He does not satisfy his inadequate income.
3. Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
4. Medical records were found to be grossly inadequate.
5. The system is inadequate for the tasks it has to perform.
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Meanings and Examples of INADEQUATE
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inadequate
a. lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
a. not sufficient to meet a need
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 For this purpose her equipment, though varied, was inadequate.
2 Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
3 Poor Pittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and would be the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.
4 And then Aunt Pitty, who was jumping up and down on her inadequate little feet with excitement.
5 The town was crowded with soldiers, swamped with wounded, jammed with refugees, and this one line was inadequate for the crying needs of the stricken city.
6 However inadequate the rest of the house, he had seen to it that the fundamental cellar should be large and clean, the square pillars whitewashed, and the bins for coal and potatoes and trunks convenient.
7 Finally, the prisoner made it understood that his vocabulary was inadequate, and there stepped up a dapper young man with waxed mustaches, bidding him speak in any language he knew.
8 His head seemed swollen to a size that made him think his neck to be inadequate.
9 They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather inadequate income.
10 But surely such an explanation as that would be quite inadequate to account for the deep and subtle scheming which seemed to be weaving an invisible net round the young baronet.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
Context Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
11 They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.
12 It originated in Mrs. Gardiner, who, fatigued by the exercise of the morning, found Elizabeth's arm inadequate to her support, and consequently preferred her husband's.
13 Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief.
14 Pierre listened to him, straining each faculty to understand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental capacity was inadequate for the task.
15 It was all very pretty, but totally inadequate to illuminate the pictures which were usually left in the darkness of the side altars, and seemed to make the darkness all the deeper.
Example Sentence:
1 Maddie's a real expert on art, so I feel completely inadequate whenever I talk to her about it.
2 Democrats lambasted the President's budget plan for being 'inadequate'.
3 Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
4 The causes of social distress include inadequate housing.
5 The country's infrastructure is crumbling because of inadequate investment.
6 Medical records were found to be grossly inadequate.
7 I felt totally inadequate as a parent.
8 The system is inadequate for the tasks it has to perform.
9 The plan, brilliant in its conception, failed because of inadequate preparation.
10 The support systems to enable women to realize their potential at work are seriously inadequate.
11 Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling, the fourth resource comes into operation.
12 Can a compensatory education program make up for the inadequate schooling he received in earlier years?
13 He does not satisfy his inadequate income.