Example sentences for: inordinate

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

  • The piece has the good detail that when Zinni headed up peacekeeping efforts in Somalia, he met regularly with local cartoonists, who he discovered, had inordinate influence on the largely illiterate local populace.

  • He even recycles his sex obsessions: Sliver and Basic Instinct both devote inordinate amounts of attention to the fact that Sharon Stone is not wearing any underwear.

  • appetite, appetites mighty, enormous, gargantuan, endless, limitless, unlimited, unfailing, uncontrollable, lusty, voracious, ravenous, (in) satiable, sharp, ferocious, rapacious, devouring, brutish, wolfish, healthy, hearty, greedy, keen, robust, inordinate, substantial, unbridled, avaricious, poor, grotesque, morbid, morose, raucous, finicky, discriminating,, (im) moderate, shrunk, new-found, catholic, postprandial

  • The Journal also runs a front-page feature about a hot topic in dry-as-dust San Antonio, Texas: who uses inordinate amounts of water on their lawns.

  • They believe that additional efforts to develop precisely quantified risks are not cost-effective because (1) such estimates take an inordinate amount of time and effort to identify and verify or develop, (2) the risk documentation becomes too voluminous to be of practical use, and (3) specific loss estimates are generally not needed to determine if a control is needed.


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