How to Use insufficiency in a Sentence

insufficiency

noun

• The young New Yorker, plagued in boyhood by illness and a sense of physical insufficiency, had long dreamed of the West.
  — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• Venous insufficiency: Blood pools in the veins, preventing the blood from being properly transported to the feet and back up to the heart.
  — Laura Schober, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
• Chronic venous insufficiency is a disease of the veins, most commonly in the legs.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
• His pitch had reversed field—was being the greatest salesman in the world a path to plenitude or to crushing insufficiency?
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• First, the meeting offers a reminder of the insufficiency of the steps Trump has taken to distance himself from his businesses.
  — Jeremy Venook, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And if not, would a pairing achieve completion, or merely redouble the insufficiency of the one?
  — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
• It's always been a problem for Ukraine because of the muddy season and the insufficiency of the infrastructure.
  — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• High-dose steroids are required for treatment and, for some children, the adrenal insufficiency that results from long-term, high-dose steroids can be life-altering.
  — Lona Caires, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Chronic venous insufficiency, common among people in their 70s, is a condition in which veins in the legs have trouble sending blood back to the heart.
  — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 18 July 2025
• The credit has already contributed to a drop in the child poverty rate and in food insufficiency among families with children.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2021
• GoFundMe has become an object lesson in the insufficiency of just getting the story out there.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• His poems register the insufficiency not just of words, but of feelings.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Either the valve isn’t opening all the way, called stenosis; or the valve fails to close properly and the blood flows the wrong way across the valve, called incompetence, insufficiency or regurgitation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
• Iron insufficiency can lead to tiredness and iron deficiency anemia, which affects 30% of people in the world.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a disease of the vessels that carry blood back to the heart from elsewhere in the body.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 July 2025
• The case for GluRδ2 insufficiency was made even stronger after the researchers studied mice designed to have this brain protein deficiency.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2020
• But the play’s great poignancy lies in its restraint, in the moments that could lead to shouting and instead lead to silence and space, the insufficiency — especially in a world of constant translation — of language.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
• According to the evening bulletin, the slight kidney insufficiency detected on Sunday was not a cause for concern.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• Renal insufficiency refers to a state in which the kidneys are not functioning at their full capacity.
  — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
• Blood tests, which had shown some low platelet counts and anemia, have confirmed an improvement and the slight kidney insufficiency detected a few days ago has receded, the statement said.
  — Nicole Winfield, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2025
• Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when the valves in your leg veins don't work properly.
  — Scott Sundick, Health, 24 July 2025
• Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency can cause all sorts of mayhem in the GI tract.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Jan. 2023
• The insufficiency of milk was gradually taken care of by frequent suckling with time.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
• When that happens, blood settles in the legs, leading to a condition called chronic venous insufficiency.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 17 July 2025
• Her son had been in and out of the hospital for multiple health conditions, including chronic venous insufficiency, which caused painful swelling in his legs.
  — al, 7 Aug. 2023
• The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days has subsided and a Tuesday CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of the pulmonary inflammatory picture.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2025
• The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days has subsided and a Tuesday CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of the pulmonary inflammatory picture.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2025
• The injury report called it a fractured ankle -- another example of the insufficiency of words.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The White House announced Thursday that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition where leg veins have difficulty sending blood back to the heart.
  — Miriam Waldvogel, The Hill, 20 July 2025
• Outside of cases in which there are specific diseases causing adrenal insufficiency, there is no evidence that somehow the adrenal glands get overwhelmed and lose their ability to function.
  — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025