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Example sentences for "insufficiently"

Lexicographically close words:
insued; insufferable; insufferably; insufficiency; insufficient; insufflation; insuing; insula; insulae; insulam
  1. She could have shaken the insufficiently dying General in his bed!

  2. It made her feel unnatural, as though joined to a creature with whom she was insufficiently acquainted, whose ways might not be her ways or its thoughts her thoughts.

  3. The city of Trieste is very insufficiently supplied with fresh water.

  4. I awakened feeling numbed all through, with the pain at the joints which results from sleeping insufficiently protected in a low temperature, and looked about me shivering.

  5. Unfortunately the soldiers to whom he trusted were insufficiently trained, badly armed and equipped.

  6. The question of the quality of the bread was raised; it was alleged that bread insufficiently baked and bread which consisted of remains insufficiently ground together was sometimes distributed.

  7. The Japanese have usually been held up as models for their treatment of prisoners, yet, for all that, Professor Ariga admits that in Manchuria the prisoners were in many cases badly fed, badly housed and insufficiently clothed.

  8. I at least for one must confess myself insufficiently virtuous to have ever at any time for any moment felt towards them the very slightest touch of any feeling more attractive than repulsion.

  9. Premature birth ought to be avoided, because the child born too early is insufficiently equipped for the task before him.

  10. Discreet inquiry revealed that the mysterious malady was one common to all women, and the girl was restored to her insufficiently punished parents.

  11. The volunteers, it is true, were imperfectly trained, often insufficiently officered, and unprovided with a proper proportion of cavalry and artillery.

  12. The former type found itself insufficiently respected, and the latter type found itself insufficiently adored.

  13. Indeed the whole character of Jane is insufficiently presented.

  14. The pulp properly diluted with water is strained through special screens to remove any insufficiently beaten material and any impurities present, after which it is run off into the vat, a square-shaped vessel built of wood or stone.

  15. Other precautions of a similar character are observed in order to minimise the danger of an insufficiently cooked pulp.

  16. Thus again, in introducing the Sketches by Boz I have felt chiefly that I am introducing them to a new generation insufficiently in sympathy with such palpable and unsophisticated fun.

  17. It has been quite insufficiently pointed out that all the serious moral ideas that Dickens did contrive to express he expressed altogether through this fantastic medium, in such figures as Swiveller and the little servant.

  18. Strube attributed the peculiar features of this epidemic to the depressed condition of the troops; they had been exposed to great hardships on the way to Paris, over-fatigued by forced marches, and very insufficiently supplied with food.

  19. Hence this organ, when weakened by structural change and insufficiently stimulated through diminished innervation, may not fully empty itself during the systole, and consequently it becomes dilated.

  20. He appears to have wandered into the betting-room, and by some unexplained means or other fallen backwards through an insufficiently protected skylight.

  21. The tissues of the bone and bursa are insufficiently nourished, and the secretion of synovia lessened.

  22. Should the original wound be insufficiently enlarged, or should its opening become occluded by the solid matters of the discharge, then this condition, like the last, ends in the formation of fistulous openings in the heel.

  23. In this case the injury has resulted, as we have already intimated elsewhere, from causing the animal to wear for too long a time a shoe with too broad a web or insufficiently seated.

  24. Defn: Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnæa, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.

  25. It may be manifest the child is ill-fed, harshly treated, insufficiently clothed, dirty and living among surroundings harmful to body and soul alike, but we merely take the quivering damaged victim and point the moral to the parent.

  26. Or is this law insufficiently enforced through popular apathy?

  27. And side by side with the invention of inferior cheap substitutes for existing words and phrases, and infinitely more serious than that invention, goes on a perpetual misuse and distortion of those that are insufficiently known.

  28. We can only attribute the men's grousing to the fact that it may sometimes be insufficiently cooked.

  29. Over his black coffee and cigarette it struck him that she might have been unwell, and that he had been insufficiently attentive to the little duties of the table, and he hastened to ask if she had a headache.

  30. At last she gave him up, concluding her vision was insufficiently purified or that he was exhibiting at other synagogues.

  31. In early 1916 the British army was still finding itself, and its new Commander-in-Chief, Sir Douglas Haig, regarded it as insufficiently trained and equipped for the great tasks which lay before it.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insufficiently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    badly; inadequately; incompletely; intolerably