How to use "adequate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "adequate" in popular movie and book plots

  • It would place all of his copyrights into the public domain, supposedly leaving his family without adequate support.  - The Last Station
  • Bob, realizing that there is no adequate shelter available, advises the group to make a run for it in their vehicles.  - Night of the Twisters (film)
  • He proves to be adequate for his day-to-day living but cannot fulfill his deep desire for revenge.  - Mystery of Chessboxing
  • To her social position and material prosperity seem to be an adequate guarantee for a happy future.  - Frau Jenny Treibel
  • Although Kinsley finds it ridiculous, Mulder believes that centuries of seclusion could be adequate for such drastic adaptations to happen.  - Detour (The X-Files)
  • If the military needed wool or cotton to make uniforms, wood could provide adequate clothing substitutes.  - Wood for War
  • Wolfe is hired to exonerate the suspect, but finds that no one else has either an adequate motive or the requisite opportunity.  - Gambit (novel)
  • Unable to find an adequate jockey, Don (having entered the race from the "Pepperidge Farm" Stables) will be ridden by an inexperienced Chaney.  - Hot to Trot
  • Composer Giacomo Carissimi is directed by Cardinal Mazarini (Mazarin) to visit Grantville, and finally obtains adequate funds.  - Grantville Gazette II
  • He has been using Carter and his multiples to procure the children so he will have an adequate control group to study the development of MPD.  - Raising Cain
  • Everett falls out with his bosses and is fired on the spot, but he points out that his contract entitles him to adequate notice.  - True Crime (1999 film)
  • There, the organic material considered adequate is selected as food for pigs.  - Isle of Flowers
  • Butters is delighted by this offer and gladly accepts it, while Stan believes that it isn't adequate payback.  - My Future Self 'n' Me
  • Again, he is not in love with Paul but with his boyhood pal, but he considers Paul adequate for the time being.  - The City and the Pillar
  • Frank develops typhoid fever and is taken to hospital, where for the first time he has adequate food and warmth.  - Angela's Ashes
  • A social worker named Cobra Bubbles expresses increasing concern that Nani has not been able to take adequate care of Lilo.  - Lilo & Stitch

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