How to Use ill-equipped in a Sentence

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• The carpets were tatty; the meeting rooms were ill-equipped.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• And no wildflowers are more ill-equipped than poppies.
  — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Cerel said that with limited funding, schools are ill-equipped to do more.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Feb. 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
• Gone are the days when players left academies ill-equipped for a world outside of the game, bruised and bereft.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• The local firefighters are largely ill-equipped and unsalaried.
  — Kristin Deasy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
• When airlines are ill-equipped to quickly react to disruptions, that slows everything down even more.
  — Whizy Kim, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
• India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a dearth of staff and equipment.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
  — Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And sometimes, you’re left with conversations that your film vocabulary is ill-equipped to cover.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
• Adult brains are ill-equipped for the swap, meaning Prodigy must rely on children with terminal diseases to be their guinea pigs.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• State agencies, however, were ill-equipped to accommodate the order.
  — Yue Stella Yu feb. 22, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• But the cohort is simply so big and our nation’s retirement system remains woefully ill-equipped to deal with their exit.
  — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 22 Dec. 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
• 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
• Modern workforce trends illustrate how ill-equipped the current system is to capture the rapid changes in the modern labor market.
  — Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Congress is ill-equipped to proactively identify and treat every at-risk young person who might otherwise turn to violence.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
• And without keeping up with the virus's journey in wild animals, experts worry, humans will be caught unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle bird flu.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 7 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
• 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