How to Use satisfactory in a Sentence

satisfactory

adjective

• The movie was brought to a satisfactory close.
• He gave a satisfactory account of how the accident had happened.
• The job requires a satisfactory level of performance.
• His work has been satisfactory, but not outstanding.
• Results are less satisfactory than had been anticipated.
• How will all this lead to an end-state that is satisfactory to both sides?
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2022
• That way, each of his two women will be free to find a more satisfactory mate.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• There is a way to salvage this that is satisfactory to both sides.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
• How many grafts does each zone need to achieve a satisfactory outcome for the eye?
  — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
• There is no very satisfactory way to compare how each firms’ clients have done.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• For a school as large and as wealthy as Texas, eight wins is not a satisfactory bar.
  — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
• And the lid makes a satisfactory flick, like fiddling with a lighter.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• Our sales in India over the past two years have been satisfactory.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 14 Aug. 2019
• If that is satisfactory to some, the Jazz players aren’t among them.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2021
• The soft product and food, while satisfactory, hasn’t changed.
  — Matt Nelson, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
• Maybe that's not a satisfactory result for some fans, but try to keep it all in perspective.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 15 July 2019
• Investors are nervous about whether the rate curve will be satisfactory.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• At this price point, the panel is satisfactory.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Yeah … very satisfactory to hear that.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• Sheets said many kids will be able to talk to their parents about peer pressure and figure out satisfactory ways to deal with it.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2021
• The reasons for its choice make sense, but won’t help the bank give investors a satisfactory return for many years to come.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2017
• The satisfactory foam that this frother created held its shape throughout the pour test.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• Just then, the tourist comes down the stairs, says the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 note and leaves.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• To the grief police, no way of grieving is satisfactory.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• So, rows of shops with the shutters down, no satisfactory work, the gig economy.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 May 2023
• The food wavers from satisfactory one moment to downright bad the next, as variable as the sea.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Starlink has been adding users like crazy in the last year, but the performance always seemed satisfactory to me.
  — Brian Westover, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
• The idea that one person killed the president is just not satisfactory to some people.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• Another 10 minutes went by and a man in a chef's hat came out and asked if the food was satisfactory.
  — Author: Geoff Kennedy, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
• The bulbs will not produce a satisfactory bloom the second year and should be discarded.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026