Example sentences for: incompetence

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

  • The medical community emphasized that "the number one cause of medical mistakes is not incompetence but confusion."

  • They suggest that being CEO was Gates' level of incompetence and that he's going "back to the garage," where he belongs.

  • The early incompetence of the Gore campaign forced the candidate to eschew his ambivalence about politicking and come "to terms with his outer politician."

  • In Japan, Asahi Shimbun painted a picture of great confusion and official incompetence, prominently reporting the government's admission that it reacted too slowly and that there wasn't enough staff at the site to handle the crisis.

  • The weightiest British opponent of the war remains the Times ' op-ed columnist Simon Jenkins, who, writing from the United States Friday, said that "the misreading of Mr Milosevic by Nato deserves to rank with Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor in the annals of military incompetence."


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