Examples of underprepared in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Rioters smashed windows, broke through doors and beat and bloodied law enforcement officers who were vastly underprepared for the mob. — Steve Leblanc And Ben Fox, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022 Instead, Ukraine has inflicted heavy losses on a Russian force seemingly underprepared for a long, tough fight. — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022 Underequipped and underprepared, these volunteers joined the war effort from all walks of life. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022 Back in 2014, Ukrainians formed ad-hoc volunteer fighting battalions to help the underequipped, underprepared regular armed forces. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022 But critics of the government said the local authorities were ill-equipped to handle the annual influx and underprepared to deal with emergency situations. — Salman Masood, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022 Katherine Wu, a staff writer for The Atlantic, said the US is vastly underprepared for a new variant. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021 Cut down on courses like these, and kids may be hugely underprepared to navigate essential parts of the adult world. — Kat Mckim, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021 At least 210 people died in Texas, where the underprepared power grid gave out and more than 4 million households lost power. — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021 See More

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