satisfactory

Example Sentences

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If the United States wins the WBC championship Tuesday, when no outcome besides victory would have been satisfactory, the team will explode in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

“There can be language, communication, and other barriers that make it difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to get a satisfactory resolution to their problem.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

"In my view, it is not just or reasonable for him to pay a chartered flight when I have been given no satisfactory explanation for why that should be."

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

And while President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for "restraint" and announced measures to try to address grievances, "the issue for us is the end of the regime, and nothing else is satisfactory", she said.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

They called her Helen Wright and left it at that All in all her life was a satisfactory one.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison