How to Use insufficiency in a Sentence

insufficiency

noun

• The young New Yorker, plagued in boyhood by illness and a sense of physical insufficiency, had long dreamed of the West.
  — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• Chronic venous insufficiency is a disease of the veins, most commonly in the legs.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
• His pitch had reversed field—was being the greatest salesman in the world a path to plenitude or to crushing insufficiency?
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• First, the meeting offers a reminder of the insufficiency of the steps Trump has taken to distance himself from his businesses.
  — Jeremy Venook, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And if not, would a pairing achieve completion, or merely redouble the insufficiency of the one?
  — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
• It's always been a problem for Ukraine because of the muddy season and the insufficiency of the infrastructure.
  — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• High-dose steroids are required for treatment and, for some children, the adrenal insufficiency that results from long-term, high-dose steroids can be life-altering.
  — Lona Caires, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• The credit has already contributed to a drop in the child poverty rate and in food insufficiency among families with children.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
• GoFundMe has become an object lesson in the insufficiency of just getting the story out there.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• His poems register the insufficiency not just of words, but of feelings.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Either the valve isn’t opening all the way, called stenosis; or the valve fails to close properly and the blood flows the wrong way across the valve, called incompetence, insufficiency or regurgitation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
• Iron insufficiency can lead to tiredness and iron deficiency anemia, which affects 30% of people in the world.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• The case for GluRδ2 insufficiency was made even stronger after the researchers studied mice designed to have this brain protein deficiency.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
• But the play’s great poignancy lies in its restraint, in the moments that could lead to shouting and instead lead to silence and space, the insufficiency — especially in a world of constant translation — of language.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
• Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency can cause all sorts of mayhem in the GI tract.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Jan. 2023
• The insufficiency of milk was gradually taken care of by frequent suckling with time.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
• Her son had been in and out of the hospital for multiple health conditions, including chronic venous insufficiency, which caused painful swelling in his legs.
  — al, 7 Aug. 2023
• The injury report called it a fractured ankle -- another example of the insufficiency of words.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Those of us who have always loved baseball will forgive its excesses (and insufficiencies), but prospective young fans won’t be so tolerant – not with a video game to play or a (perceived) cooler sport to watch instead.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
• Again and again we are reminded of the insufficiency of doctrine and law to address the human predicament despite their overwhelming influence on our conduct.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Swollen ankles can be triggered by an infection, blood clot, venous insufficiency, lymphedema, or an injury to the ankle or foot, says Ishibashi.
  — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• Low-income Black men were three times more likely to be unemployed and experience food insufficiency than high-income white men.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
• If the valve doesn’t open all the way, it’s called aortic stenosis, but if there is leakage backward through the valve, from the aorta back into the left ventricle, it is called aortic regurgitation, or aortic insufficiency.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
• This is very likely to be venous insufficiency, rather than fluid retention due to kidney, liver or heart disease.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 June 2023
• Even after one check, surveys found that families were less likely to report food insufficiency.
  — Yamil Berard, ajc, 10 Sep. 2021
• The gap was even more severe for transgender people of color, who were six times as likely to experience food insufficiency as cisgender white adults.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022
• Among all of the coastal enclave’s critical shortages — food and fuel, medicine and shelter, clean drinking water — another insufficiency emerged: Gaza, the United Nations said Monday, has run out of body bags.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• For the last few years, Kanye West — perhaps tired of the insufficiency of the album, or music-making in general — has been seeking increasingly grand canvases for his various projects.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• But, in Dalton’s defense, the winless Bengals showcased a plethora of issues during Dalton’s eight game, and quarterback play was near the bottom of Cincinnati’s insufficiency list.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• These include ovarian cysts, primary ovarian insufficiency, and PCOS.
  — Andrea L. Braden, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024