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  • Many times I'd help Sandra with her housework, as I learned other ways to become self-sufficient.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate
  • We lack sufficient quantities of the drugs we need.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (without being more than is needed)
  • Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?   (source)
    sufficient = adequate
  • there was no can opener, and he finally extracted sufficient coffee for two cups by hammering a hole in the top of the can with a nail.   (source)
  • George was sufficiently alert to avoid the trap.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • In the end the Sushana River site was sufficiently remote to cost him his life.†   (source)
  • Winston had recovered himself sufficiently to speak.   (source)
  • There is moderate machine-gun fire. It sweeps across from all directions, not very heavy, but always sufficient to make one keep down.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately
  • This was the first time Buck had failed, in itself a sufficient reason to drive Hal into a rage.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • ...finally he had gathered sufficient courage to tell her what was in his heart.   (source)
    sufficient = enough
  • And the money was just sufficient.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • He had stolen several times, but the gains had not been sufficient to offset his dread of being locked up;   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • One reading was sufficient to stamp every detail of the story upon my memory forever.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate
  • No more; that is sufficient. When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate
  • If there is sufficient oxygen to maintain a flame, the action of the flame increases air circulation, which then brings in more oxygen.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • The yacht moved rapidly on, though there did not appear to be sufficient wind to ruffle the curls on the head of a young girl.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate
  • Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • You have guessed right; I have lately been so deeply engaged in one occupation that I have not allowed myself sufficient rest, as you see; but I hope, I sincerely hope, that all these employments are now at an end and that I am at length free.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • A wager ensu'd between the two captains, to be decided when there should be sufficient wind.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate without being more than is needed
  • they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
  • I cannot be the commander for good and sufficient reasons.†   (source)
  • After giving me a tour of their large house, including the twenty-foot Buddha in the living room, the father asked me whether five dollars an hour would be sufficient.†   (source)
  • The universe itself was transparent; as long as you were sufficiently sharp-eyed, you could see as far as you liked.†   (source)
  • But in point of fact, the word small would not have been sufficiently diminutive to suggest comrade Frinovsky's size.†   (source)
  • I was sufficiently committed to going to Yale Law that I was willing to accept the two hundred thousand dollars or so in debt that I knew I'd accrue.†   (source)
  • As a non-Aryan, you are unsuitable for the education and care of German children and young people, as you are not sufficiently trustworthy.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid our usual orientation film won't be sufficient.†   (source)
  • I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • One of the first incarcerated women I ever met was a young mother who was serving a long prison sentence for writing checks to buy her three young children Christmas gifts without sufficient funds in her account.†   (source)
  • I watched the whole of human life come through my court: the hopeless waifs who couldn't get themselves together sufficiently even to make a court appointment on time; the repeat offenders; the angry, hard-faced young men and exhausted, debt-ridden mothers.†   (source)
  • I realize no sum could possibly serve as sufficient restitution, and yet, if you could be kind enough to divide the contents of this briefcase among them...the families of the deceased.†   (source)
  • My dad said softly, "They're pretty self-sufficient, Trina."†   (source)
  • The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice.†   (source)
  • Tally remembered now that Rusty cities weren't self-sufficient, and were always trading with one another, when they weren't fighting over who had more stuff.†   (source)
  • If you short power through it, that will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • The man cupped the elbow of his pipe-holding arm and rocked back on his heels, glancing to his right and left to satisfy himself that the people standing in his immediate vicinity were paying sufficient attention.†   (source)
  • The coast guard installed sounding boards along island beaches and anchored numbered buoys at intervals in the shipping channel, and these measures seemed sufficient to islanders until the next accident came along.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I was surprised to find how quickly those feelings drained away, how eagerly I longed to have again what I thought had been sufficient for a lifetime.†   (source)
  • The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.†   (source)
  • On those nights, we—Duff, Taylor, and I—became a small, self-sufficient family, and I told myself, guiltily, that everything might really work out all right.†   (source)
  • Inside was a stockpile of guns and knives sufficient to arm a small militia.†   (source)
  • You'd think the royal sigil would be sufficient, but no. He makes his mother's House equal in honor to the king's.†   (source)
  • When his wife Ekwefi protested that two goats were sufficient for the feast he told her that it was not her affair.†   (source)
  • Nothing in her life was sufficiently interesting or shameful to merit hiding; no one knew about the squirrel's skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.†   (source)
  • Soups can cure any illness, whether physical or mental—at least, that was Chencha's firm belief, and Tita's too, although she hadn't given sufficient credit to it for quite some time.†   (source)
  • But I think you'll find sufficient to talk about before long.†   (source)
  • Then I think this will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • SO, LADY CELESTE, YOU'RE SAYING that the quantities aren't sufficient, and you feel the number of men taken in the next draft should be raised?†   (source)
  • Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.'†   (source)
  • I moderated my drinking to the point that one or two beers a week was sufficient.†   (source)
  • Xandra had grown sufficiently distracted with guests and grief that Boris was able to go upstairs to make the call in her bedroom —a room usually kept locked, that Boris and I never saw.†   (source)
  • He considers this measure to be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Even if I couldn't do without it, it was sufficiently repugnant to me that I wouldn't do it anymore.†   (source)
  • The statement is sufficiently vague, and a decent assumption.†   (source)
  • The hide was still wet from being on the moose, hadn't had time to dry, but the fire and heat in the shelter worked fast and within a few days it had dried sufficiently to work.†   (source)
  • ' "I'm afraid that would not be sufficient," Mr. Poe said.†   (source)
  • Their conversation must have been sufficiently perplexing to warrant an early visit.†   (source)
  • "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," and nobody needed more; nobody needed a grown-up evil sitting at the table with a grudge.†   (source)
  • No suggestion of heavy metals or precious ores has been sufficient to explain such a monumental effort.†   (source)
  • Two silver pennies will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • You'll be very fortunate ever to become a geisha with sufficient status for a man like Nobu to consider proposing himself as your danna.†   (source)
  • I supposed I looked sufficiently alive not to need to answer.†   (source)
  • But having destroyed and consumed her, he moveson, not sufficiently touched, it seems to me, by the pathetic spectacle he has caused.†   (source)
  • Left without a sufficient supply of yams, the people?†   (source)
  • I spent several more days in Therrod recovering sufficiently that the doctor would approve my leaving.†   (source)
  • And then, feeling perhaps that he had underlined his victory sufficiently, sauntered out into the empty streets.†   (source)
  • I wondered if Anatole would consider me a sufficient messenger.†   (source)
  • They each had a slender build and upright posture and dark skin, and though the feed lacked audio input it was of sufficient resolution that lip-reading software could identify their language as Tamil.†   (source)
  • They said the threat of violence due to integration was not sufficient for the governor to have called out troops.†   (source)
  • The sight of it is sufficient to awaken in the soul a faint recollection of the perfect "horse," which the soul once saw in the world of ideas, and this stirs the soul with a yearning to return to its true realm.†   (source)
  • In weight, they now far surpassed the person of their origin and there would probably be more than sufficient to populate a village of Henriettas.†   (source)
  • Well, he drained me almost to the point of death, which was for him sufficient.†   (source)
  • As soon as Edward was sufficiently distracted, Victoria would finish me.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid a reprimand will not be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Leigh Anne was now sufficiently exasperated to remind Michael what she had been telling him for weeks: "You have one chance to pass this test.†   (source)
  • It included a wife he loved and two children he doted on, a job that tested his intellect, and sufficient financial independence to choose his own path.†   (source)
  • I always wished for more split ones, but she was such a perfectionist there would be very few of those and she rarely had sufficient flour to make enough bread for the gifts, let alone for us.†   (source)
  • That is a sufficiently all-inclusive term, I think.†   (source)
  • He wanted her photograph to appear in the society pages of the local papers, and he wanted there to be a Caligulaesque party with sufficient fanfare and expense that no one would notice the belly of the bride.†   (source)
  • Every now and then, a news reporter or a photographer gets in the way sufficiently to stop a bullet.†   (source)
  • She was sturdy and self-sufficient—that's how she'd gotten to Atlanta, after all—but she didn't like the idea of leaving her boys behind.†   (source)
  • The electric heaters are usually sufficient.†   (source)
  • It must have gone okay and it must have been sufficient for God to use, because I spoke for a few minutes about the good news of the gospel of Christ, and we ended up praying with seven or eight kids to accept Christ right then and there.†   (source)
  • You always had sufficient calories.†   (source)
  • "How very nice to meet you," Mrs. Blanck said, looking sufficiently impressed.†   (source)
  • It is our dream that someday the climate of Arrakis may be changed sufficiently to grow such plants anywhere in the open.†   (source)
  • The rest of the team is revived sufficiently to urge us on loudly, chanting our names on starts and finishes.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps she was two versions of herself, Ruth 1969 and Ruth 1999, one more innocent and the other more perceptive, one needier, the other more self-sufficient, both of them fearful.†   (source)
  • Thank you, sir, but Mr. Curran and I will devise a sufficient punishment.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke of two matters, each sufficient to shake the core of our young lives.†   (source)
  • Remembering this, her body seemed fragile suddenly, as if she were not the accomplished self-sufficient woman who'd taken a group to China and back but rather someone who might be swept away by the next gust of wind.†   (source)
  • It dawned on them that the camp needed to be entirely "self-sufficient."†   (source)
  • Otherwise you may like to speak to Martha or Dorothy, or any members of the male staff you deem sufficiently trustworthy.†   (source)
  • The car was sufficient for our needs.†   (source)
  • She checked out with two bottles of good Italian red and just sufficient pride intact.†   (source)
  • Their single most important concern is securing sufficient nourishment for individual maintenance.†   (source)
  • The chemical that provides the dominant flavor of bell pepper can be tasted in amounts as low as .02 parts per billion; one drop is sufficient to add flavor to five average size swimming pools.†   (source)
  • The two years seemed to have done sufficient harm, for at twenty-eight, Mimi was an "old maid."†   (source)
  • Their son was a self-starter, a little bit of a loner, and very self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • "Edna was determined that that would not happen again, that they had not been sufficiently sensitive to the woman's condition," Anne recalled.†   (source)
  • But my father did not make sufficient progress, and the blows continued to rain on him.†   (source)
  • "What the police failed to appreciate," he says in a nasal voice, "is that the witnesses were not sufficiently—"†   (source)
  • There was a disturbing split second between someone talking to her and the words penetrating sufficiently to elicit a response.†   (source)
  • The Rupp family were Roman Catholics, the Clutters, Methodist-a fact that should in itself be sufficient to terminate whatever fancies she and this boy might have of some day marrying.†   (source)
  • So I hope you were sufficiently grateful.†   (source)
  • Once women are sufficiently frightened, they scream.†   (source)
  • I was an it—I had studied sufficient Ogrese to understand almost everything.†   (source)
  • Cedric's frame, now six-foot-one and 190 pounds, proves to be a sufficient deterrent.†   (source)
  • The leg hadn't totally rotted off, but it had rotted sufficiently that the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.†   (source)
  • The countenance of simple rapture that she turned to him was reply sufficient.†   (source)
  • Until a few years ago, my existence and my activities were confined to Delta, which is not as limited as it sounds since Delta is a self-sufficient and self-sustaining community.†   (source)
  • She told him that wasn't necessary; just do his work and that would be sufficient, thank you.†   (source)
  • We leave the door to the camel car wide open, but it's clear a simple airing out won't be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Their immediate response, a thunderous two-hour cannonade, proved nothing, as their guns could not be elevated sufficiently to strike a target so high.†   (source)
  • That was sufficiently creepy.†   (source)
  • With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood's lifelong diet.†   (source)
  • And for me the problem often was that I couldn't muster a sufficient response internally.†   (source)
  • 'Go to the hospital quickly,' he mumbled, when he had recovered sufficiently to speak, 'and tell them you're sick.†   (source)
  • That was years ago, and we are still waiting for the temperature to drop sufficiently.†   (source)
  • After a sufficiently brave time, she returned to the storytellers.†   (source)
  • I haven't sufficiently described him.†   (source)
  • It was clear that Nigel thought that this explanation was weighty and sufficient.†   (source)
  • Because I constantly complained about the unsanitary conditions, Moody finally noticed them sufficiently to make an issue of them.†   (source)
  • I hope that will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Our mouths are not open sufficiently.†   (source)
  • She embraced her older brother on the porch, and he, to his credit, managed to seem sufficiently moved: eyes tightly closed, lips pooched, forehead furrowed.†   (source)
  • We have sufficient supplies and firepower to support everyone here.†   (source)
  • It is sufficient.†   (source)
  • Just 'No, thanks' is sufficient.†   (source)
  • I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter.†   (source)
  • Cats are remarkably self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • Admiral Nimitz thought he was dropping bombs "sufficient to pulverize everything on the island."†   (source)
  • When the battlefield was sufficiently cluttered with dead Scabs, he would beat a hasty retreat while the archers rained thousands of arrows down on the crowded field.†   (source)
  • Thanks to thousands of Pakistani soldiers the road to Skardu had been "improved" sufficiently since Murphy's day to allow trucks to pass on their way to support the war effort against India.†   (source)
  • And he presides over the American contributions to a dictionary that embraces the most racy and up-to-the-minute expressions, if they have sufficient currency.†   (source)
  • Last night's rain has soaked this soft duff of needles sufficiently to make them good walking.†   (source)
  • A minimum of five will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • There they shall be taken care of and restored entire to the true proprietor as soon as due and sufficient proof shall be made concerning the property thereof.†   (source)
  • Everybody seemed cool and collected ...and it is sufficient refutation of the absurd stories which have been circulating of outrages, lynchings, etc., to state the simple fact that my wife and her sister ...were a long time walking about the streets in the vicinity of the fire ...without ever a feeling of insecurity, or receiving an uncivil word from anyone.†   (source)
  • Here, I believed, was a sufficient threat that compelled us to join hands with our Indian and Communist colleagues.†   (source)
  • Now they'll have to be more self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†   (source)
  • Luna must be self-sufficient!†   (source)
  • The goal of each team was to be self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • If it weren't for public opinion, an average speed of sixty-five miles per hour would have been quite sufficient.†   (source)
  • He looked sufficiently full of the holy crusade to do some such thing.†   (source)
  • But that, too, died away when, again, no sufficiently strong motive could be discovered.†   (source)
  • In any case, he was not so arrogant or foolish to think his little speech sufficient to accomplish the task.†   (source)
  • With a nuclear weapon even a millisecond difference in the timing of the explosions is sufficient.†   (source)
  • Knowing what every native loves to hear, he would have offered the classic immigrant story, casting himself as the heroic newcomer, self-sufficient, resourceful.†   (source)
  • Like Phil and Kay, our granny and pa taught us how to be independent, confident, and self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • Doing things the way they were done while he was growing up enabled Pa to make our farm self-sufficient in many ways—we were still living as people did in the 1800s, although it was a hundred years later.†   (source)
  • This will give you sufficient time to make your own statements and prevent panic.†   (source)
  • He put a toilet in the hall closet underneath the stairs, because almost as soon as they moved in he realized that one bathroom was not going to be sufficient.†   (source)
  • The line was Vincent's fault; he had leaned another canvas against poor Marguerite before she was sufficiently dry.†   (source)
  • Simultaneouslya lighting change sufficient to alter the exterior mood into interior, but nothing violent.†   (source)
  • That year, 1831, when Harriet regarded herself as sufficiently grown up to wear a bandanna, she kept hearing a strange, fascinating story, told and retold, in the quarter, in the fields.†   (source)
  • The captain had sufficient bunker fuel to get his ship to Brisbane at her most economical speed, but no further.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: It is not sufficient.†   (source)
  • These were a hardy and self-sufficient people, quite capable of taking care of themselves.†   (source)
  • I knew he had friends on the Praesidium, or yes-men at least, people who were sufficiently frightened to go running to him as soon as they got my report.†   (source)
  • Benny Grayback wanted to put him in a double dormitory room, with another boy, but Rowena Ellis said, "He is an unusual boy, exceptionally reserved and self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • a. That the small rodents were sufficiently numerous to support the wolf population.†   (source)
  • Too, I wanted no more sunlight until I had the medication sufficiently out of my system to allow me to lighten.†   (source)
  • But I know already sufficient of these deeds for my own counsel against the menace of the East.†   (source)
  • I had read romantic literature in sufficient bulk to know that my wretched frustrated moonings could in their collective despair almost laughably exemplify the word "lovelorn."†   (source)
  • I hope you're both sufficiently ashamed of yourselves?†   (source)
  • BRADY Kindly signal me while I am speaking, if my voice does not have sufficient projection for your radio apparatus.†   (source)
  • The Africans who had abandoned the town and gone back to their villages were better off; they at least had gone back to their traditional life and were more or less self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • It was several seconds before her heart stopped jumping, and she found sufficient courage to enter her office.†   (source)
  • RICH No, not a bit profound; it then becomes a purely practical question of how to make him suffer sufficiently.†   (source)
  • The steel was not sufficiently tensile, the rails failed the test for strains, and Antipov thought that they would crack in the frosty weather.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he became very busy with his line; he had to build sufficient momentum in crosspower to carry it past the middle of the stream, where the broadside current, at full strength, could lock both line and craft.†   (source)
  • That's quite sufficient, with a little method.†   (source)
  • For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.†   (source)
  • After he had dissembled sufficiently, and before the worried manager could send out for a peeper salesman, Reich stopped before the bookshelves.†   (source)
  • When Feld has sufficiently recovered from his anguished disappointment to ask why, she answered without hesitation, "Because he's nothing more than a materialist."†   (source)
  • Or she might have run away again, in another desperate impulse towards escape, and this time done it sensibly, and learned how to live again, as she was made to live, by nature and upbringing, alone and sufficient to herself.†   (source)
  • Ourselves we have not had sufficient to eat for long enough.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • Just in the last few weeks he has improved sufficiently to be able to hobble about doubled up.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • Also they would be able to reopen and guard some other gate, so that the besiegers would have to encircle the whole mountain; and for that they had not sufficient numbers.   (source)
    sufficient = enough
  • His two slogans, 'I will work harder' and 'Napoleon is always right,' seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (good enough)
  • Yet this would be perilous, if the goblins were in sufficient numbers to overrun the Mountain itself, and so attack them also from behind and above; but there was no time for make any other plan, or to summon any help.   (source)
    sufficient = enough
  • The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.   (source)
  • Their ponies were lost or killed, and they would have to wait some time before Smaug relaxed his watch sufficiently for them to dare the long way on foot.   (source)
    sufficiently = enough
  • If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not too near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round — if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
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