Sentence examples for adequate not from inspiring English sources

His health is adequate, not robust.

"With this race deal, once a year is adequate, not every other Sunday".

In gnocchi pesto, the potato gnocchi were adequate, not dazzlingly light and cloudlike, and the pesto was merely workmanlike.

Showers are weedy but adequate – not how you'd describe the beer downstairs: a great pint of Masham's finest Black Sheep – it only had to stroll down Coverdale to get here – plus a fine pale ale from another local brewery: Dark Horse at Skipton.

The audit found that the department's efforts to follow up on violations "were less than adequate not only because of deficiencies in the execution of its programs, but also because the agency is limited in its ability to compel property owners to remedy violations on their property".

The acceptance of a theory involves only the claim that it is empirically adequate, not its truth on the theoretical level.

"Whether the response was adequate or not, I can't tell you," he said.

I couldn't understand why, because in my eyes my work was adequate but not stellar.

The rooms were adequate although not huge.

Sautéed wild striped bass was adequate, if not very exciting.

His footwork is perfectly adequate, but not much more.