INORDINATE in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for INORDINATE, such as:

1. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
2. Testing is taking up an inordinate amount of teachers' time.
3. Margot has always spent an inordinate amount of time on her appearance.
4. She had an inordinate fondness for candy, eating two or three boxes in a single day.

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 Meanings and Examples of INORDINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inordinate
 a.  exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly
Classic Sentence:
1  A most remarkable circumstance is, that I really don't think he grasped this sum even so much for the gratification of his avarice, which was inordinate, as in the hatred he felt for Copperfield.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
2  He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
3  Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous; the interest they took in the question of wages was inordinate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
5  Since I've been in the army definitely, I've got out of the way of the world, and now I see how inordinately strong the craving for self-assertion and success is in men.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
2  Testing is taking up an inordinate amount of teachers' time.
3  Margot has always spent an inordinate amount of time on her appearance.
4  They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
5  She had an inordinate fondness for candy, eating two or three boxes in a single day.
6  A congressional inquiry found no evidence to support this, though it confirmed that the Brazilian team had agreed to play an inordinate number of friendlies that drained the players' energies.