How to Use satisfactory in a Sentence

satisfactory

adjective

• The movie was brought to a satisfactory close.
• He gave a satisfactory account of how the accident had happened.
• The job requires a satisfactory level of performance.
• His work has been satisfactory, but not outstanding.
• Results are less satisfactory than had been anticipated.
• Just then, the tourist comes down the stairs, says the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 note and leaves.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• For a school as large and as wealthy as Texas, eight wins is not a satisfactory bar.
  — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
• How will all this lead to an end-state that is satisfactory to both sides?
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2022
• And the lid makes a satisfactory flick, like fiddling with a lighter.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• That way, each of his two women will be free to find a more satisfactory mate.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• There is a way to salvage this that is satisfactory to both sides.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
• If that is satisfactory to some, the Jazz players aren’t among them.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2021
• The deal has not closed, so the viability of the project could hinge on a settlement satisfactory to the state, the city and Moreno.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• Our sales in India over the past two years have been satisfactory.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 14 Aug. 2019
• The food wavers from satisfactory one moment to downright bad the next, as variable as the sea.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• When Sanofi went live with its AI app, the quality of the data was not satisfactory.
  — Paul Hudson, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Their decisions were most satisfactory to Auburn and Tuskaloosa and the crowd never once yelled at the umpire.
  — al, 22 Nov. 2021
• If this game plays out like that, and UConn can come out of it without more major injuries, that will have to be satisfactory.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
• Sheets said many kids will be able to talk to their parents about peer pressure and figure out satisfactory ways to deal with it.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2021
• Starlink has been adding users like crazy in the last year, but the performance always seemed satisfactory to me.
  — Brian Westover, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
• With a bad taste in his mouth after the less than satisfactory killing of his green-haired hostage, Chloe, Kurt is making a mad grab for his next victim.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2021
• So, rows of shops with the shutters down, no satisfactory work, the gig economy.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 May 2023
• The first two contracts were satisfactory but Leyendecker didn’t think the firm would be used again.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2019
• Can Davis and Green, two seniors who had never seen the field of 68, get any sort of satisfactory ending to their careers?
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2020
• The 76ers, Heat, and Lakers couldn’t come up with a satisfactory package.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Maybe that's not a satisfactory result for some fans, but try to keep it all in perspective.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 15 July 2019
• The satisfactory foam that this frother created held its shape throughout the pour test.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• The idea that one person killed the president is just not satisfactory to some people.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• The creator also assured that even though there wasn’t a volume four to base the fourth season on, the ending will be pretty satisfactory.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 8 Aug. 2024
• Online promises and offers will be less than satisfactory.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024