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Sentences ending with adequate

Commonplaces alone seemed possible, adequate. [9]
Antony had behaved in a manner for which no words of condemnation or regret were adequate. [10]
There are new fortunes, undoubtedly, munitions and war fortunes made before certain measures were taken to control profits; and some establishments, including a few supported by American accumulations, still exhibit the number of men servants and amount of gold plate formerly thought adequate. [9]
It was his first appeal to a force outside himself, to an active principle unfamiliar to the voluntary working of his nature, and the answer had been immediate and adequate. [11]
The pen of Dante had not been adequate. [9]

More example sentences with the word adequate in them

A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
It was like unto nothing we had ever seen, nor can I give an adequate notion of how it affected us,--such a mixture it seemed of dirt and poverty and wealth and romance. [9]
It is not to be supposed that the Pilgrims had an adequate conception of the continent, or of the magnitude of their mission on it, or of the nation to come of which they were laying the foundations. [4]
This was due to a variety of reasons or prejudices, not all of them creditable to a generous desire for the universal elevation of mankind, but one of them the historian will judge adequate to produce the result. [4]
His generosity to the sick and poor of the Glencader Mine had been great, and he had given them a hospital and a club with adequate endowment. [11]
It was this that appalled him--this tenacity of the flesh,--which no terrors seemed adequate to drive out. [9]
In five or six thousand years five or six high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then faded out and disappeared; and not one of them except the latest ever invented any sweeping and adequate way to kill people. [5]
If Great Britain shall choose to recognize them as lawful belligerents, and give them shelter from our pursuit and punishment, the laws of nations afford an adequate and proper remedy [and we shall avail ourselves of it. [7]
I regret to see you do such tradesmen's work without adequate reward. [10]
There was the ring Philip had given her, inscribed with their names; but she was sophisticated enough to know that this would not be adequate evidence in the eyes of her Jersey neighbours. [11]
I would seriously recommend to the government of the United States that when a man commits a crime so heinous that the law provides no adequate punishment for it, they make him Consul General to Tangier. [5]
I shrink from putting on paper the sentimental side of my nature, and indeed I could give no adequate idea of my affection for that drum. [9]
Repetition seems the only method of giving an adequate impression of their numbers; and near what was once the village of Pozieres was the biggest grave of all, a crater fifty feet deep and a hundred feet across. [9]
The old republics of the past may be said to have fallen, not because of party spirit, but because there was no adequate machinery by which party spirit could develop itself with facility and regularity. [6]
He could think of but one Providential event adequate to the emergency,--an event foreshadowed by various recent circumstances, but hitherto floating in his mind only as a possibility. [6]
In the absence of a more adequate motive than the evidence discloses, I am wholly unable to believe in the existence of criminal or fraudulent intent on the part of men of such well established good character. [7]
Probably he had no responsibilities in the world, with no one to say him nay, himself only to consider in all the universe: a divine conception of adequate life. [11]
Now that the ladies of the present are coming to dress as ladies dressed a hundred years ago, we can make an adequate comparison of beauty. [4]
Wrong as she knew this to have been, severely though she had been punished for it, she could not bring herself to an adequate penitence. [9]
Since, however, it is apparent that here, as in every other state, foreign dangers necessarily attend domestic difficulties, I recommend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defenses on every side. [7]
It is only in the ordinary prison where the parole is in use with no adequate discipline, and without the indefinite sentence, that deception can be practiced. [4]
Sometimes she trembled in indignation, and then afterwards gave herself to the work on the estate or in the household--its reform and its rearrangement; though the house was like most in Jamaica, had adequate plate, linen, glass and furniture. [11]
Polly Ann and I stared transfixed at the fearful fight that followed, nor can I give any adequate description of it. [9]
I'm not literary, I can't express what I'd like to say, but sometimes I used to think of that mill as a woman--and now you've come along--" Ditmar stopped, for lack of adequate eloquence. [9]
He felt what he could not reason upon or put into adequate words. [11]
We think we have adequate force close after them. [7]
We should have had such delight in her unaffected pleasure in it, and it would have been one of those satisfactions somewhat adequate to our sense of fitness that are so seldom experienced. [4]
Now, if we had an alphabet that was adequate and competent, instead of inadequate and incompetent, things would be different. [5]
They met the familiar picturesque raggedness of Southern Europe with the old kindly illusion that somehow it existed for their appreciation, and that it found adequate compensation for poverty in this. [8]
Every community and every age creates its own Bar, entirely adequate for its present uses and necessities. [7]
After pausing to contemplate a Millet on the stair landing, they came at last to the huge, silent gallery, where the soft but adequate light fell upon many masterpieces, ancient and modern. [9]
That would be competent, adequate, simplified spelling, in contrast to the clipping, the hair punching, the carbuncles, and the cancers which go by the name of simplified spelling. [5]
Again, it was certain that he had an adequate devotion to his master, who had given him as many ha'pence as kicks, and many cast-off underclothes and cigarettes. [11]
He was troubled, but for the life of him could find no adequate words, who usually had the dictionary at his disposal. [9]
These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? [7]
While it was an invitation, it was also an engagement, on terms which would have been adequate for Patti in her best days. [11]
There was no adequate and effective organization for the public defense. [7]
He thought of a dozen things--possible services, even probable services--but none of them seemed adequate, none of them seemed large enough, none of them seemed worth the money--worth the fortune Goodson had wished he could leave in his will. [5]

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