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
• So, close your eyes and take a trip back through time to consider who and what might have led you to feel inadequate.
  — Svetlana Whitener, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• Sometimes, a claim is both false and based on an inadequate set of data.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• Even with a flapping of legs and the application of the end of the bridle reins, the horses’ pace seemed inadequate.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• Still, that move has been seen as inadequate by those who just want to be able to tinker with and fix their own machines.
  — WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022
• But so many errors in a short time suggest that some of the backup systems might be inadequate to the task, Bellovin said.
  — Aaron Gregg, Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sometimes, a claim is both false and based on an inadequate set of data.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
• Checkout 19 comes labeled as a novel, but as with Pond, the term is inadequate to the book itself.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• The parents of all three victims said that the schools’ response was inadequate and that their children’s assailants were still at the same school.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
• Young said inadequate staffing at the store is one of the chief complaints of union organizers.
  — CBS News, 19 July 2022
• With the Afghan debacle in the background, the inadequate response to the threat to Ukraine will be a dress rehearsal for China and Taiwan.
  — WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Once added, there is inadequate due process for suspects to clear their names, critics say.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• 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
• That approach may be fine for commodity servers, but is inadequate for state-of-the-art AI.
  — Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• 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
• And that leaves us with a series of wrenching questions: If setting a funds rate at 1 percent is inadequate, how high will be high enough?
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The numbers on Covid have always been inadequate, in part because not every case is confirmed with a test.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• The scissor jacks that come with most new cars, trucks, and SUVs are woefully inadequate.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
• The production plans--which aren’t done--have likely proven to be inadequate, forcing the shipyard to redo their work.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• As Kevin’s direct supervisor, Big Greg makes Kevin feel inadequate as a provider and a man.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 19 July 2022
• Workers at the Lakewood store wrote in their open letter that raises have been inadequate and that there is no clear roadmap for promotions.
  — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• Risk of muscle loss If protein intake or strength training is inadequate, fasting could lead to muscle breakdown.
  — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2025
• Physically robust forces can have a dangerous Achilles Heel if their cyber defenses are inadequate, which could lead to the entire force being disabled at a stroke.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025