Sample sentences for SUFFICIENT

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Definition

adequate (enough — often without being more than is needed)

We have sufficient supplies.

sufficient = adequate (enough)

Is there sufficient cause for a search warrant?

sufficient = adequate (enough)

I have sufficient savings to go two months before I get another job.
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 1:20 (NIV)
...finally he had gathered sufficient courage to tell her what was in his heart.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

sufficient = enough

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream

insufficient = not adequate

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in insufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

I thought I had made things sufficiently clear.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

sufficiently = adequately

A few months were sufficient to give him a distaste for this kind of life.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

sufficient = adequate without being abundant

Is the security sufficient?
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

sufficient = adequate

One reading was sufficient to stamp every detail of the story upon my memory forever.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

sufficient = adequate

There is moderate machine-gun fire. It sweeps across from all directions, not very heavy, but always sufficient to make one keep down.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

sufficient = adequate (enough)

He had stolen several times, but the gains had not been sufficient to offset his dread of being locked up;
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

sufficient = adequate (enough)

We lack sufficient quantities of the drugs we need.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

sufficient = adequate (without being more than is needed)

If there is sufficient oxygen to maintain a flame, the action of the flame increases air circulation, which then brings in more oxygen.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

sufficient = adequate (enough)

George was sufficiently alert to avoid the trap.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough — often without being more than is needed)

All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

sufficient = adequate (without extra)

In such cases he made use of English, broken and imperfect, but sufficiently intelligible,
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough — often without being more than is needed)

And the money was just sufficient.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

sufficient = adequate (enough — often without being more than is needed)

But neither his wife nor his daughter was sufficiently interested to ask an explanation.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough — often without being more than is needed)

But before the boys could sufficiently admire the car, Mama and Big Ma shooed us toward the church for the service.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

sufficiently = in a manner that is good enough

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