Example sentences for: ill-prepared

How can you use “ill-prepared” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Indeed much of the coverage revolved around anticipated traffic jams, tourist rip-offs, entrepreneurs' complaints that there are fewer eclipse-tourists than they planned for, weather worries, and gloomy predictions of ill-prepared spectators permanently damaging their vision.

  • Seattleites debated whether the police: 1) were ill-prepared, outnumbered, and too accommodating of demonstrations; 2) overreacted by using riot tactics on peaceful protesters; or 3) were stuck in a "Catch-22."

  • Not expecting a land attack, Commonwealth troops on the peninsula were ill-prepared.

  • When Russia refused to give the Western technicians all the computer information they wanted, they had pronounced the country "ill-prepared" to deal with the millennium bug.

  • On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a "postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared" (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)


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