How to Use ill-equipped in a Sentence

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• Mihdhar and Hazmi, who were both in their mid-20s, were notably ill-equipped to make their way in the West.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
• Mihdhar and Hazmi, who were both in their mid-20s, were notably ill-equipped to make their way in the West.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
• Yet much of today’s infrastructure is ill-equipped for the task.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• The obsession comes from being ill-equipped, not from knowledge.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 May 2024
• Cerel said that with limited funding, schools are ill-equipped to do more.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• The chief is ill-equipped and underequipped to be the chief of a police department with this history and a diverse city.
  — Shaquille Brewster, NBC news, 26 May 2025
• Plagued by illnesses and ill-equipped for frontier life, the group soon gave up and retreated to New Orleans.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• The encampment sprawled across a grassy plateau, where Washington arrived at the head of a contingent of weary and ill-equipped soldiers.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Her sedan, ill-equipped for the rugged terrain, bottomed out repeatedly, forcing Laird and Stirling to dig the car out with sticks and move rocks by hand.
  — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
• Still, Musk’s platform is hardly alone in being ill-equipped for the next phase of this arms race, and the rest of Silicon Valley may not fare much better.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• The local firefighters are largely ill-equipped and unsalaried.
  — Kristin Deasy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
• The single’s protagonist is ill-equipped to say no to the joint’s alluring features, and his plan to get a good weeknight’s sleep is derailed by the pursuit of a good time.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2024
• Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment.
  — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
  — Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• These groups have been ill-equipped and poorly trained throughout the war, and have struggled at times to maintain defensive positions.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• These groups have been ill-equipped and poorly trained throughout the war, and have struggled at times to maintain defensive positions.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• Hardening the grid The aging grid is often ill-equipped to handle the load even where enough power can be generated.
  — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 28 July 2024
• Hospitals in the south, already overcrowded and stretched for resources, are ill-equipped to receive any more people.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• The troops deployed there were unprepared and ill-equipped, sent to pursue objectives that could be bafflingly opaque.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a dearth of staff and equipment.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
• When airlines are ill-equipped to quickly react to disruptions, that slows everything down even more.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
• Many have been sent to prisons outside our country, internment centers or camps, ill-equipped to house these detainees, some of whom may never be heard from again.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2025
• For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
• For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
• When the program finally had vaccines, the shots presented challenges that weak health systems were ill-equipped to manage.
  — Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Despite having watched the previous three years of war with horror and alarm, U.S. forces were still ill-equipped, lacking the new weapons of war, including machine guns, aircraft, and tanks.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• Experts say federal regulators, law enforcement, and the courts are ill-equipped to rein in the burgeoning scam.
  — Pranshu Verma, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• Though not nearly as squishy, sloppy, or ill-equipped for cornering as its antecedents, the vehicle is also not quite a Mustang on stilts, either.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2023
• Many of its 2,000 or so personnel in the camps are fresh out of basic training and ill-equipped to combat militant groups, said Syed Harun Or Rashid, battalion commander.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• But this latest tragedy again dramatized for many how Mexico is ill-equipped to handle the influx of U.S.-bound migrants transiting the country.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023