Sample Sentences for
sufficient
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    He considers this measure to be sufficient.  (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
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    It was, however, sufficient to do him in.  (source)
    sufficient = enough
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    No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.  (source)
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    From the computer image, they knew the skeleton lay in a relatively confined area; a ditch around a two-meter square would be sufficient.  (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
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    When it had cooled sufficiently, they both watched it a moment, waiting for the words.  (source)
    sufficiently = adequately
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    We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.  (source)
    insufficient = inadequate (not enough)
    standard prefix: 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.
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    Attending insufficiently to the diamond absolutes, among which must be counted the sufficiency of that which is absolutely imagined.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficiently means not and reverses the meaning of sufficiently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    For if he should have Authority from his Letters, to make the members pay what he borroweth, he should have by consequence the Soveraignty of them; and therefore the grant were either voyd, as proceeding from Errour, commonly incident to humane Nature, and an unsufficient signe of the will of the Granter; or if it be avowed by him, then is the Representer Soveraign, and falleth not under the present question, which is onely of Bodies subordinate.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If I obtained a sufficient number of "perk points" by getting high productivity and customer approval ratings, I could "spend" some of them to purchase the privilege of decorating my cube, perhaps with a potted plant or an inspirational poster of a kitten hanging from a clothesline.  (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough)
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    But before the boys could sufficiently admire the car, Mama and Big Ma shooed us toward the church for the service.  (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (enough)
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    But this proved insufficient as more Hatters stepped forward, so she conjured her numberless reflections to her aid.  (source)
    insufficient = inadequate (not enough)
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    When he started out, he felt, he had been too impressed by sheer physical talent and insufficiently respectful of actual on-field achievement.†  (source)
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    Unnecessary Lawes are not good Lawes; but trapps for Mony: which where the right of Soveraign Power is acknowledged, are superfluous; and where it is not acknowledged, unsufficient to defend the People.†  (source)
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