How to Use ill-equipped in a Sentence

ill-equipped

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  • 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
  • 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
  • The obsession comes from being ill-equipped, not from knowledge.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • Cerel said that with limited funding, schools are ill-equipped to do more.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Still, Musk’s platform is hardly alone in being ill-equipped for the next phase of this arms race, and the rest of Silicon Valley may not fare much better.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The local firefighters are largely ill-equipped and unsalaried.
    — Kristin Deasy, Los Angeles Times, 11 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
  • Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
    — Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a dearth of staff and equipment.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • When airlines are ill-equipped to quickly react to disruptions, that slows everything down even more.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
  • For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • 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
  • Despite having watched the previous three years of war with horror and alarm, U.S. forces were still ill-equipped, lacking the new weapons of war, including machine guns, aircraft, and tanks.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Though not nearly as squishy, sloppy, or ill-equipped for cornering as its antecedents, the vehicle is also not quite a Mustang on stilts, either.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Many of its 2,000 or so personnel in the camps are fresh out of basic training and ill-equipped to combat militant groups, said Syed Harun Or Rashid, battalion commander.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • But this latest tragedy again dramatized for many how Mexico is ill-equipped to handle the influx of U.S.-bound migrants transiting the country.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Each year, the nonprofit rescues about 100 rabbits across the greater New York City area after the animals are abandoned or brought to traditional shelters ill-equipped to care for them.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The rigor around data and compensation, in particular, should be easily reportable to the board, and many HR leaders are ill-equipped to get at this data.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

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