SUFFICIENT in a Sentence

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246 example sentences for SUFFICIENT, such as:

1. They have nukes, and if they're sufficiently pushed, they'll use them.
2. That candidate does not have sufficient visibility to win an election.
3. They are heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a completely fused melt.
4. I personally prefer burning an area, because the regeneration is more sufficient.
5. Loud as it was, it was not sufficient to rouse the two tired wayfarers above them.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUFFICIENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sufficient
 a.  adequate; enough; being as much as is needed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Loud as it was, it was not sufficient to rouse the two tired wayfarers above them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  His two slogans, "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right," seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
5  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
6  He knew Rachael well, for a glance at any one of these groups was sufficient to show him that she was not there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
7  A few books and writings were on an old bureau in a corner, the furniture was decent and sufficient, and, though the atmosphere was tainted, the room was clean.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
8  Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
9  Each maintained his opinion with sufficient obstinacy, as is usual in all such cases; the attendants were appealed to, but they had not been near enough to hear Wamba's directions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  "It is sufficient," said the Disinherited Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  The Lady Rowena is desirous to return to Rotherwood, and must be escorted by a sufficient force.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
13  Less than one half of this weighty evidence would have been sufficient to convict any old woman, poor and ugly, even though she had not been a Jewess.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  'I do think sufficient civilization ought to eliminate a lot of the physical disabilities,' said Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Where once relative health and relative safety were sufficient, we demand absolute health and utter safety against the remotest contingency.
17  I personally prefer burning an area, because the regeneration is more sufficient.
18  A food supplement is a preparation intended to supply nutrients, which are missing or not consumed in sufficient quantity in a person's diet.
19  Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.
20  In remodeling the attic into a bedroom, we decided that we needed to put in a dormer to provide sufficient ventilation for the new room.
21  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.
22  The NWO intends to make all nations interdependent, meaning that no nation can be allowed to be self sufficient.
23  They are heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a completely fused melt.
24  Please notice sugar cane, which is mostly cultivated sustainably in suitable soils with sufficient rainfall.
25  That candidate does not have sufficient visibility to win an election.
26  But it remained to be seen Thursday whether he had sufficiently recovered in recent weeks from his health issues to have sufficient stamina to hold off Blake in these Games.
27  They have nukes, and if they're sufficiently pushed, they'll use them.
28  Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
29  Academics and employers are deeply concerned that students are not sufficiently prepared mathematically for university courses.
30  Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.