Example Sentences

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He found the work boring, subject to arbitrary management dictates and not satisfactorily remunerative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Seiger said "profound questions" about the murder of an MP could not be "satisfactorily answered behind closed doors".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

And this is the real thing I think we haven’t grappled with, but I’m not sure people who are watching the court have yet satisfactorily explained it, at least to my ears.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2025

The goofy supernatural show the film’s ’90s teens are obsessed with doesn’t conclude satisfactorily.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

“Well, Reverend Buckminster” said Mr. Stonecrop, “I think everything is most satisfactorily concluded.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt