How to Use insufficiency in a Sentence

insufficiency

noun
  • The statement, however, does note some insufficiencies occurred on the part of its board.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
  • His poems register the insufficiency not just of words, but of feelings.
    — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • Before games, a sense of insufficiency flooded the 12-year-old.
    — Gail Cornwall, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Chronic venous insufficiency is a disease of the veins, most commonly in the legs.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when the valves in your leg veins don't work properly.
    — Scott Sundick, Health, 24 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even after one check, surveys found that families were less likely to report food insufficiency.
    — Yamil Berard, ajc, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The insufficiency of milk was gradually taken care of by frequent suckling with time.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
  • Renal insufficiency refers to a state in which the kidneys are not functioning at their full capacity.
    — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Bruising of the hands is not a symptom of chronic venous insufficiency, Dini says.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 July 2025
  • Trump has attributed bruising on his hands to his heavy intake of aspirin to thin his blood and swollen ankles to chronic venous insufficiency.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is very likely to be venous insufficiency, rather than fluid retention due to kidney, liver or heart disease.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 June 2023
  • When that happens, blood settles in the legs, leading to a condition called chronic venous insufficiency.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 17 July 2025
  • When these valves become weakened or incompetent, blood can pool in the lower legs — a condition known as venous insufficiency.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2025
  • Chronic venous insufficiency, which is common among people in their 70s, occurs when veins in the legs have trouble sending blood back to the heart.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • GoFundMe has become an object lesson in the insufficiency of just getting the story out there.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • 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
  • Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency can cause all sorts of mayhem in the GI tract.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 19 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Low-income Black men were three times more likely to be unemployed and experience food insufficiency than high-income white men.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The injury report called it a fractured ankle -- another example of the insufficiency of words.
    — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • According to the evening bulletin, the slight kidney insufficiency detected on Sunday was not a cause for concern.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Often times there are provisions in a divorce agreement about insufficiency of life insurance including a claim against his estate.
    — Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026

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