Example sentences for: imperfect

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

  • Be that as it may, the real choice is not between imperfect markets and perfect governments, but between markets that fail and governments that fail.

  • The sadness is not for what was, or even for what might have been, but for what always comes between the two--the feeling of being in the eternal, dream-absorbing, imperfect present.

  • Following ingestion, bacteria occasionally survive the formidable but imperfect gastric barrier, and colonize the gut [12].

  • That's the difference between ordinary altruism, where you care about other people's happiness (though perhaps not as urgently as you care about your own), and what I'll call "imperfect altruism," where you reserve the right to care about how others achieve their happiness.

  • Of course, no markets are really perfect in this imperfect world, and you want to be careful not to let suppliers exaggerate the constraints to buttress an unwarranted case for de facto or legislated monopoly.


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