How to Use adequate in a Sentence

adequate

adjective

• The food was more than adequate for the six of us.
• The machine does an adequate job.
• The school lunch should be adequate to meet the nutritional needs of growing children.
• The quality of his work was only adequate.
• Your grades are adequate but I think you can do better.
• The quality of his work was perfectly adequate.
• The garden hasn't been getting adequate water.
• The tent should provide adequate protection from the elements.
• The best way to get an adequate amount of fiber is to consume as much fiber as possible every day.
  — Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 15 Oct. 2024
• Keep adequate airflow by removing the canister and using soapy water to wash it in a sink.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
• But many officers may not have adequate training on dementia.
  — USA Today, 22 Nov. 2022
• These amount to a financial snapshot of an exchange, made public to show customers that the company has adequate funding to fulfill a large amount of withdrawals at once.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, some legal experts say that several of these countries don’t do adequate screening, or often delegate it to third-party agencies without oversight.
  — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 16 Oct. 2024
• Rimsza said state and county health departments need to investigate ways to eliminate racial disparities in child deaths, and will require adequate funding to do it.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2022
• This procedure is complicated and involves surgical connections between blood vessels, so your liver can have adequate blood flow.
  — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
• Two-thirds of the dead were enlisted Black sailors—men who’d been forced to load heavy munitions onto ships bound for the Pacific without receiving adequate training.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Blome argued the plaintiffs presented adequate evidence to justify a permanent injunction blocking some of the state's hunting rules.
  — Amy Beth Hanson, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
• If this is not present in an adequate amount, then leave and go to line 20.
  — Zachary MacK, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• The reply from the Nunes camp seems…less than adequate.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 Feb. 2018
• Then plant the bulb in a pot with adequate drainage, leaving about a third of the bulb exposed.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
• What used to be considered adequate in the 15% to 18% range is no longer the norm.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• Lake says that gives her all the more reason to take adequate time away.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 19 June 2018
• But lawyers handling the city's case say that's not adequate.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• Some mothers who would like to work lack adequate child care to do so.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
• The silverware and dishes were clean, and the meals were adequate.
  — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• If the snowfall doesn't last long, installing a set of skid chains is adequate.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2022
• Check roast after two hours to make sure there is still adequate liquid in the pan.
  — The View, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Leg and headroom are more than adequate even for those over six feet tall.
  — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
• The district hopes that the extra day off will give teachers adequate time to prepare for the week.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Several of my day lily clumps and a stand of Salvia looked quite adequate for the purpose.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2017

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024