Sentence examples for seemed insufficient from inspiring English sources

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My degree seemed insufficient.

Whatever my answer was, it seemed insufficient.

The old ones, like that comma right there or the period that ended the last sentence, suddenly seemed insufficient.

Le Brocquy's charm and modesty may have seemed insufficient defence against the vitriolic public abuse that accompanied his hometown rejection in 1952, but his inner strength was obvious early in life.

Tasman sailed around the continent and discovered Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Staatenland (New Zealand), and the Tonga and Fiji Islands, but their commercial possibilities seemed insufficient to warrant further attention.

But what?" Noiville doesn't say, but perhaps it was no more complicated than that he had sacrificed too much for his work — he had for instance abandoned his 5-year-old son and the child's mother in Poland — and now that he had what he had hoped for, it seemed insufficient.

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That seems insufficient.

An hour somehow seems insufficient.

Makiya's answer seems insufficient.

The usual vocabulary of planning seems insufficient.

Existing sanctions and safeguards seem insufficient.

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