The phrase "adequate sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the sufficiency or appropriateness of a sentence in terms of its structure, content, or clarity.
Example: "The teacher explained that while the student's response was not perfect, it was still an adequate sentence to convey the main idea."
Alternatives: "satisfactory sentence" or "sufficient sentence".
Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale, said the prosecutors' decision suggested that they believed that his admissions, as extensive as they were, did not capture the full seriousness of his crimes or guarantee an adequate sentence.
If you were an average sized woman forced into sex by someone with the physical strength, power and capacity for violence of Mike Tyson, would you think that an adequate sentence?
"Not only must the risk of getting caught increase significantly, but seizures and arrests must also be followed up by swift prosecution and adequate sentencing, reflecting the seriousness of crimes against tigers," he added.
Sometimes, merely adequate sentences join forces with each other to form monuments of intellect.
Each sentence had a duration of about 5 s followed by an ISI of 11 s, resulting in a trial length of 16 s an adequate time window to model the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) response.
The sentence is adequate for the specifications of which the accused was found guilty.
Mark Hale, the prosecutor in the case, read Ms. Gillespie-Hillsman's statement and said Mr. Isaac's sentence was adequate.
"If we truly want to create a legal system that brings justice to all — a system that recognizes that physically assaulting an unconscious human being is not some form of sexual shoplifting, a petty misdemeanor where a 90-day sentence is adequate — then we must not quietly excuse Judge Persky," Hoffman wrote in a Medium post.
The higher court needs to take a hard look at whether the unusual swiftness of this trial allowed defendants enough time to prepare an adequate defense for a verdict that resulted in sentences that seemed disproportionate to the offense.
It is quite the opposite: a certain state of the thing signified by the subject of the sentence is the adequate significate of that same sentence.
An adequate semantic understanding of the sentence 'Bill Gates is richer than everyone else alive' would then be sufficient for recognition of its truth.
