INSUFFICIENCY in a Sentence

Learn INSUFFICIENCY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

33 example sentences for INSUFFICIENCY, such as:

1. The food was both bad and insufficient.
2. The unit has insufficient armament with which to do battle.
3. Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold.
4. But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
5. I swear to you, it was nothing but my inexperience and insufficient means.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSUFFICIENCY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insufficiency
 n.  lack of an adequate quantity or number
 n.  (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  This lord Munodi was a person of the first rank, and had been some years governor of Lagado; but, by a cabal of ministers, was discharged for insufficiency.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
2  At any rate, she had so many uses for it that its very insufficiency had caused her to play high in the hope of doubling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was unknowingly done and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learnt to condemn them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
5  He had some intention, he added, of studying law, and I must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very insufficient support therein.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
6  Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38
7  Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60
8  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
10  If I had been killed in the presence of a thousand colored people, their testimony combined would have been insufficient to have arrested one of the murderers.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  The poor, frightened old woman at last forgot her fears; and, even Eliza, as the night waned, found all her anxieties insufficient to keep her eyes from closing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  The materialism you advocate has been more than once in vogue already, and has always proved insufficient.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  I swear to you, it was nothing but my inexperience and insufficient means.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
14  Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III
15  This condition is never observed by the universal historians, and so to explain the resultant forces they are obliged to admit, in addition to the insufficient components, another unexplained force affecting the resultant action.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
2  The unit has insufficient armament with which to do battle.
3  The food was both bad and insufficient.
4  He decided there was insufficient evidence to justify criminal proceedings.
5  Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.
6  Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold.
7  "I am sorry my mite is insufficient, my friend," said the clergyman, without again raising his eyes, "it is all I have at present to bestow."