Sentence examples for merely adequate from inspiring English sources

He's not merely adequate; he's absolutely wonderful.

The shapes are there, the energy merely adequate.

His speech, unlike that of the merely adequate supporting cast, feels lived rather than learned.

FOR far too long — more than a dozen years — Thomas Bifulco's living conditions were merely adequate.

Most of the others are merely adequate and some are weak, like the tenor Iorio Zennaro.

Our currently abundant food supply may well be downgraded to merely "adequate".

Her biggest vocal flaw revealed itself throughout Thursday's set: merely adequate breath control.

For a young singer it's often hard to recognise when a teacher is merely adequate.

The sequences that are Rogue One qua Rogue One are occasionally intriguing, but, predominantly, merely adequate.

I knew I'd find a lot of merely adequate prose, and I did.

That smash was followed by Piccadilly Jim (1936), a merely adequate adaptation of a P.G.