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Sentences ending with inadequate

The supply of wholesome provisions was inadequate. [4]
If they listened to him talk philosophy, encouraged him to do it, and told him they liked it, when the bargain was being made, the chances are the security is inadequate. [11]
There were many reasons for a delay, reasons which of course are never mentioned, but which it would seem that a New York judge sometimes must understand, when he grants a postponement upon a motion that seems to the public altogether inadequate. [5]
My former comparison of the organization of our city to a picture puzzle wherein the dominating figures become visible only after long study is rather inadequate. [9]
If this should occur now, I should find myself painfully embarrassed, in fact financially inadequate. [5]
And besides, this little fortune had come to seem contemptibly inadequate. [4]
It was at last found out that as hiding-places for the divine intentions they were inadequate. [5]
Words seemed so inadequate. [9]
If so, the impression I have given of myself has been wholly inadequate. [9]
He was true as steel to his generals, but had frequent occasion to change them, as he found them inadequate. [7]

Short sentences using inadequate

The existing phrase-books are inadequate. [5]

More example sentences with the word inadequate in them

Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
The Regulations under which the Traffic exists in Queensland are inadequate to prevent abuses, and in the nature of things they must remain so. [5]
It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
These details seem to me all inadequate and misleading, for the attraction of the face that made it interesting is still undefined. [4]
He was rising,--slowly, timidly, I thought, his hand clutching his desk lid, his voice sounding wholly inadequate as he addressed the Speaker. [9]
And then I thought what an inadequate language the English is for compact expression. [4]
And, worse than this, the estimate she placed upon the values of material things was shockingly inadequate to her position. [4]
How inadequate to the subjection of any considerable portion of it seems this little band of ill-equipped adventurers, who cannot without peril of life stray a league from the bay where the "Mayflower" lies. [4]
I refer to the speedy revision of our confused and wholly inadequate American copyright laws, and later on to a readjustment of our international relations. [4]
The cruise of the Ranger in English waters the following spring was a striking fulfilment, with an absurdly poor and inadequate force, of the plan set forth by John Paul Jones in the Annapolis Coffee House. [9]
This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. [5]
My results may seem inadequate to the reader, but they have for me clarified a muddle and brought a sort of order out of a chaos, and so I value them. [5]
They are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form, and present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated. [6]
We should be obliged to note also, among scientific men themselves, a disposition to come to conclusions on inadequate evidence--a disposition usually due to one-sided education which lacks metaphysical training and the philosophic habit. [4]
I had spent my days in mastering an inadequate and archaic code--why? [9]
If they desert me now, when I've got this Bradlaugh order on my hands--" Speech became an inadequate expression of his feelings, and suddenly his eye fell on Janet. [9]
The fact that Lincoln's first proclamation called for only 75,000 troops, to serve for three months, shows how inadequate was even his idea of what the future had in store. [7]
His two short limbs seem to him entirely inadequate to the task. [4]
If the existing judicial tribunals are inadequate to this purpose, a special court may be authorized, with power to hear and decide such claims of the character referred to as may have arisen under treaties and the public law. [7]
I wondered whether it were because of the fact that I was his father--though a most inadequate one--that I thought them somewhat unusual. [9]
Then Principal Haime, in his long "Prince Albert" and a ridiculously inadequate collar that emphasized his scrawny neck, reminded us of the sacred associations we had formed, of the peculiar responsibilities that rested on us, who were the privileged of the city. [9]
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. [2]
But the novelists have too little sense of responsibility in this respect, probably from an inadequate conception of their power. [4]
The pen that has been used in portraying Margaret's career is entirely inadequate to it. [4]
When the door had closed, Honora glanced around her and sighed, "comfort" seemed such a strangely inadequate word. [9]
Now, if we had an alphabet that was adequate and competent, instead of inadequate and incompetent, things would be different. [5]
What we must get into our minds is the fact that a social order that insured a large measure of democracy in the early days of the Republic is inadequate to meet modern industrial conditions. [9]
Words were inadequate for the occasion . [9]
It is inadequate for legal parchment, but does very well for deeds of love, which are not meant usually to give a perfect title. [4]
One passage seemed faulty, another so overstrained and inadequate, that I flung it angrily back among the rest. [10]
The regulations that exist are unjust and inadequate--unjust and inadequate they must ever be. [5]
And who could ever have foreseen that they would go and put such a load of responsibility on such green and inadequate shoulders? [5]
M. Mornay was even willing to take the inadequate indemnity of the insurance policy on the mill, and lose the rest, in order that Jean Jacques should have the eight thousand dollars to rebuild. [11]
I tried to comfort her, who could not comfort myself; I don't remember my inadequate words. [9]
Pen and paper, brush and canvas, are wholly inadequate to describe the charm of the man. [9]
But it would be inadequate, the lacks would still be so great: the confined sense, the sense of suffocation, the atmospheric dimness, the sweaty heat--these would all be there, in place of the Australian openness to the sky, the sunshine and the breeze. [5]
This provision plainly attests the understanding of those who made the Constitution that ordinary courts of justice are inadequate to "cases of rebellion"--attests their purpose that, in such cases, men may be held in custody whom the courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. [7]
Among the inadequate attempts to account for the assassination we must concede high rank to the many which have described it as a "peculiarly brutal crime" and then added that it was "ordained from above. [5]

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