Inmates had to excavate the heavy, peaty soil with inadequate tools and regardless of weather conditions or their health state.

However, his hands were pitifully inadequate tools compared to the strength of the huge tail's lethal grip.

Language, as even Mr. Johnson will admit, is a woefully inadequate tool.

Again he resorted to the crowbar, a pitifully inadequate tool, to move the lid an inch at a time.

His strength might allow him to complete the task with such an inadequate tool, but not without dulling it beyond function.

In hindsight, however, it was a rough and inadequate tool.

But if he were forced to use the inadequate tool of his vocabulary, then the closest word Chelito could find was ecstasy.

Laqueur asserted that concepts such as modernization were inadequate tools for explaining Soviet history while totalitarianism was not.

With inadequate tools, they took turns trying to cut a hole in the thick hull.

Finally, Lewis writes, "the naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you need to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games."