How to Use inadequate in a Sentence

inadequate

adjective

• I felt inadequate to the task.
• These supplies are inadequate to meet our needs.
• Her brother's success and popularity always made her feel inadequate.
• We were given very inadequate information.
• One of the hardest things to feel in life is inadequate.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
• But at the moment that is inadequate salve for what has been lost.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• Sometimes, a claim is both false and based on an inadequate set of data.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• Unrestricted cash has a lot of power to be able to fill in places where the safety net is inadequate.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
• First, the law is often highly inadequate, and can at times threaten, in the EFF’s words, to also be a chainsaw when only a scalpel will do.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• The world will continue to warm, the damage will increase, and the global response will be inadequate.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• The narrative of child care in the U.S. is one of scarcity — an inadequate supply of affordable care for the nation’s youngest children.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• My equipment was inadequate and unsafe, and the situation could have gone from bad to worse, very quickly.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2024
• To be sure, the capacity at the border is inadequate to meet the demands of the current situation.
  — Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• The critics are already calling the code inadequate and see it as proof that the Justices will bend to political pressure.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
• If the person doesn’t exercise enough to cause differential blood flow (or the dose of medicine is inadequate), the stress test may come out negative.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
• Framing Ruscha as a history or landscape painter is inadequate to cover the full, thrilling scope of his creative life.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• In the 1990s, a group of superintendents, districts and parents sued the state over inadequate funding.
  — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
• Clearly, there is no shame in feeling a little inadequate compared to her.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
• Researchers aren’t entirely sure why that happens—but at its core, the problem seems linked to inadequate deep, restorative rest, Schuetz says.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
• In 2018, his conviction was vacated on the ground that his defense had been inadequate.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• On their new land, many Choctaw members were living in poverty, with inadequate housing and little access to food.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• The first conviction was set aside by an Oklahoma court which said his defense was inadequate.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Niger River serves as an important transportation route in Mali, where roads are inadequate.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2023
• The reasons vary, from inadequate preparation in public high schools to the economic hurdles of paying for books or rent while in college.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• And worst of all, the U.S. suffered from unprepared pilots and inadequate tactics, such as Air Force formations that were too rigid in combat.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• And the situation is only made more dire with an inadequate level of access.
  — Paul Appleby, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Then, more instances of inadequate citation came to light.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
• Adams said four voting locations for a Senate district of that size was inadequate.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 24 Jan. 2023
• The parcels containing those items will have become undeliverable for a number of reasons, including that the address is inadequate or illegible, or that the person may have moved or there is no return address.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 16 Oct. 2024
• Employees are responsible for almost 90% of cyberattacks, yet the efforts to mitigate this risk have been largely inadequate.
  — Uzair Ahmed, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024