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Example sentences for: shortcomings

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

It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it.
Dad's been injured, sure, but his pride is intact, his love for his son papering over his shortcomings as a coach.
But granting a 20-year marketing monopoly on a patented invention is only one way to finance R&D, and the shortcomings of the present system are increasingly hard to ignore.
The commission's report, "The Path to Equal Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California," examined how the legal needs of the state's poor have changed in the last five years as well as both the shortcomings of the justice system and the improvements during that period.
Some of these shortcomings can be laid at the door of the author, some at the door of the book designer, most in the lap of the editor (if there was one).