How to Use insufficient in a Sentence

insufficient

adjective

• The case was thrown out because of insufficient evidence.
• But to be clear, the progress made is still insufficient.
  — Kimberly Bryant, Essence, 29 Mar. 2024
• In short, the judge said there's insufficient evidence now to throw out the case.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
• Hansen said the response from the state has been insufficient.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2022
• The mass of the Cheerios is insufficient to break the milk's surface tension.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
• That appeared to be insufficient to dissuade the justices, who agreed to hear the case last month.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Too many might come across as creepy; too few would be insufficient.
  — Csaba Toth, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• At the time, there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone in the case.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
• That seems insufficient to govern Syria, or to control the many armed groups that may swim in HTS’s wake.
  — Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
• At times, when words seemed insufficient, Grey reached out to clasp Redmayne’s hand.
  — Michael Paulson Dana Scruggs, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• In March 2023, Roiland was cleared of the charges due to insufficient evidence.
  — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
• Both Galea and Lowe say that there is still insufficient research on the impacts of mass shootings.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 6 June 2022
• Some of the cookies looked good enough; others had the telltale appearance of dough portions scraped from the sides of the bowl with insufficient flour.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
• But experts say the data is insufficient and there needs to be a more accurate tally of hate crimes in the U.S.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Two, the team’s depth had proved insufficient for much of the season even when Melvin was using the full allotment of players.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• But the court found the evidence was still insufficient.
  — Perry Vandell, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• Our first order seemed to be a victim of insufficient staff training on the new menu item — there was no bacon in any of them.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• The goal of grow lights is to augment where natural light is insufficient.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
• In my reportage of the event, the five Ws of journalism—who, what, where, when and why—were clearly insufficient without a sixth one: Which species?
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Government penalties for insufficient staffing are rare in the state of New York.
  — USA Today, 1 Dec. 2022
• The number is increasing and the resources are insufficient to meet the demand.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
• Harrison wants players who approach the game the way the late Kobe Bryant did, and anything else is insufficient.
  — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2025
• The result was insufficient staffing and low quality of care, the lawsuit said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2022
• Cox did not respond to a question about what the nature of the insufficient evidence was.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2022
• Doesn't this show that this is an insufficient solution to the problem?
  — CBS News, 29 May 2022
• Critics say some aspects of the new law that allows adults to change their gender are insufficient.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2022
• Players took the stance that all those figures were insufficient.
  — Ronald Blum, Chron, 1 Mar. 2022
• By cutting off these waivers June 30, schools will have insufficient funds for summer programs and for next school year.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• The traditional pillars of education — reading, writing and arithmetic — have not merely been sidelined; they are now regularly diminished as outdated or insufficient in the face of more fashionable trends.
  — William P. Yeakel, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2025
• But numerous academic experts and medical professionals believe those moves, while well intended, have been scattershot and insufficient.
  — Bernard J. Wolfson and Vanessa G. Sánchez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025