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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
  • Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?   (source)
  • We lack sufficient quantities of the drugs we need.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (without being more than is needed)
  • 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)
    sufficient = adequate
  • George was sufficiently alert to avoid the trap.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • 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)
  • He had stolen several times, but the gains had not been sufficient to offset his dread of being locked up;   (source)
  • ...finally he had gathered sufficient courage to tell her what was in his heart.   (source)
    sufficient = enough
  • ...an agitation sufficient to bring about the disaster.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • And the money was just sufficient.   (source)
  • as soon as I could collect myself sufficiently I told her the things I had seen.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • One reading was sufficient to stamp every detail of the story upon my memory forever.   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.†   (source)
  • But he was like that column of water he had told me of once, cold and straight, sufficient to himself.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Malfoy flushed with anger, but apparently the memory of Moody's punishment was still sufficiently painful to stop him from retorting.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • My dad said softly, "They're pretty self-sufficient, Trina."†   (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)
  • I'm afraid our usual orientation film won't be sufficient.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When his wife Ekwefi protested that two goats were sufficient for the feast he told her that it was not her affair.†   (source)
  • If you short power through it, that will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • Thank you, sir, but Mr. Curran and I will devise a sufficient punishment.†   (source)
  • Inside was a stockpile of guns and knives sufficient to arm a small militia.†   (source)
  • But I think you'll find sufficient to talk about before long."†   (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)
  • Even if I couldn't do without it, it was sufficiently repugnant to me that I wouldn't do it anymore.†   (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)
  • Perfectly sufficient.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He considers this measure to be sufficient.†   (source)
  • I cannot be the commander for good and sufficient reasons.†   (source)
  • ' "I'm afraid that would not be sufficient," Mr. Poe said.†   (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)
  • The statement is sufficiently vague, and a decent assumption.†   (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)
  • They said the threat of violence due to integration was not sufficient for the governor to have called out troops.†   (source)
  • I wondered if Anatole would consider me a sufficient messenger.†   (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)
  • No suggestion of heavy metals or precious ores has been sufficient to explain such a monumental effort.†   (source)
  • Left without a sufficient supply of yams, the people? what's left of them are sickening and dying at an alarming rate.†   (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)
  • Every now and then, a news reporter or a photographer gets in the way sufficiently to stop a bullet.†   (source)
  • But having destroyed and consumed her, he moveson, not sufficiently touched, it seems to me, by the pathetic spectacle he has caused.†   (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)
  • And then, feeling perhaps that he had underlined his victory sufficiently, sauntered out into the empty streets.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke of two matters, each sufficient to shake the core of our young lives.†   (source)
  • That is a sufficiently all-inclusive term, I think.†   (source)
  • 02 parts per billion; one drop is sufficient to add flavor to five average size swimming pools.†   (source)
  • Only the name of the unfortunate Miss Charlotte Evelyn-Hyde, late of Storping-on-Firkill, the village just to the west of Little Dunthorpe, was sufficient to bring a scream tearing from her.†   (source)
  • The rest of the team is revived sufficiently to urge us on loudly, chanting our names on starts and finishes.†   (source)
  • "How very nice to meet you," Mrs. Blanck said, looking sufficiently impressed.†   (source)
  • The car was sufficient for our needs.†   (source)
  • Otherwise you may like to speak to Martha or Dorothy, or any members of the male staff you deem sufficiently trustworthy.†   (source)
  • I supposed I looked sufficiently alive not to need to answer.†   (source)
  • Their conversation must have been sufficiently perplexing to warrant an early visit.†   (source)
  • You always had sufficient calories.†   (source)
  • Two silver pennies will be sufficient.†   (source)
  • It is our dream that someday the climate of Arrakis may be changed sufficiently to grow such plants anywhere in the open.†   (source)
  • As soon as Edward was sufficiently distracted, Victoria would finish me.†   (source)
  • Last night's rain has soaked this soft duff of needles sufficiently to make them good walking.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The electric heaters are usually sufficient.†   (source)
  • Their single most important concern is securing sufficient nourishment for individual maintenance.†   (source)
  • Once women are sufficiently frightened, they scream.†   (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)
  • Because I constantly complained about the unsanitary conditions, Moody finally noticed them sufficiently to make an issue of them.†   (source)
  • Either it did not derange his senses enough, or he was already more than sufficiently deranged.†   (source)
  • Here, I believed, was a sufficient threat that compelled us to join hands with our Indian and Communist colleagues.†   (source)
  • We leave the door to the camel car wide open, but it's clear a simple airing out won't be sufficient.†   (source)
  • She told him that wasn't necessary; just do his work and that would be sufficient, thank you.†   (source)
  • Their son was a self-starter, a little bit of a loner, and very self-sufficient.†   (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)
  • 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 is sufficient.†   (source)
  • The two years seemed to have done sufficient harm, for at twenty-eight, Mimi was an "old maid."†   (source)
  • It dawned on them that the camp needed to be entirely "self-sufficient."†   (source)
  • The countenance of simple rapture that she turned to him was reply sufficient.†   (source)
  • Janet said it was supposed to have something to do with being self-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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Edna was determined that that would not happen again, that they had not been sufficiently sensitive to the woman's condition," Anne recalled.†   (source)
  • Our mouths are not open sufficiently.†   (source)
  • With a nuclear weapon even a millisecond difference in the timing of the explosions is sufficient.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Admiral Nimitz thought he was dropping bombs "sufficient to pulverize everything on the island."†   (source)
  • I was an it—I had studied sufficient Ogrese to understand almost everything.†   (source)
  • I haven't sufficiently described him.†   (source)
  • Well, he drained me almost to the point of death, which was for him sufficient.†   (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)
  • 'Go to the hospital quickly,' he mumbled, when he had recovered sufficiently to speak, 'and tell them you're sick.†   (source)
  • Cedric's frame, now six-foot-one and 190 pounds, proves to be a sufficient deterrent.†   (source)
  • "What the police failed to appreciate," he says in a nasal voice, "is that the witnesses were not sufficiently—"†   (source)
  • Amburgh, though, seemed relaxed and sufficiently receptive.†   (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)
  • I hope that will 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)
  • Cats are remarkably self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • That was years ago, and we are still waiting for the temperature to drop sufficiently.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to give you cardiac arrest, is that sufficient?†   (source)
  • I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter.†   (source)
  • She checked out with two bottles of good Italian red and just sufficient pride intact.†   (source)
  • The goal of each team was to be self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • There was a disturbing split second between someone talking to her and the words penetrating sufficiently to elicit a response.†   (source)
  • But that, too, died away when, again, no sufficiently strong motive could be discovered.†   (source)
  • It was clear that Nigel thought that this explanation was weighty and 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)
  • We have sufficient supplies and firepower to support everyone here.†   (source)
  • If it weren't for public opinion, an average speed of sixty-five miles per hour would have been quite sufficient.†   (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)
  • He looked sufficiently full of the holy crusade to do some such thing.†   (source)
  • Now they'll have to be more self-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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Just 'No, thanks' is sufficient."†   (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)
  • In any case, he was not so arrogant or foolish to think his little speech sufficient to accomplish the task.†   (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)
  • Luna must be self-sufficient!†   (source)
  • His Arabic was not sufficiently fluent for prolonged conversation, so he addressed her in French.†   (source)
  • Like Phil and Kay, our granny and pa taught us how to be independent, confident, and self-sufficient.†   (source)
  • This will give you sufficient time to make your own statements and prevent panic.†   (source)
  • That wolves caught and ate mice. a. That the small rodents were sufficiently numerous to support the wolf population.†   (source)
  • After a sufficiently brave time, she returned to the storytellers.†   (source)
  • Simultaneouslya lighting change sufficient to alter the exterior mood into interior, but nothing violent.†   (source)
  • It was several seconds before her heart stopped jumping, and she found sufficient courage to enter her office.†   (source)
  • Too, I wanted no more sunlight until I had the medication sufficiently out of my system to allow me to lighten.†   (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)
  • But I know already sufficient of these deeds for my own counsel against the menace of the East.†   (source)
  • I hope you're both sufficiently ashamed of yourselves?†   (source)
  • These were a hardy and self-sufficient people, quite capable of taking care of themselves.†   (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)
  • The moon spilled sufficient light to make shadows about me, and the evening was chilly enough for me to button my collar.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: It is not sufficient.†   (source)
  • BRADY Kindly signal me while I am speaking, if my voice does not have sufficient projection for your radio apparatus.†   (source)
  • He was making it up out of the whole cloth, hoping to get Aunt Pat soothed sufficiently to get on with making the chipped-beef gravy for supper—"and old Mr. Nickens swore he was going to shoot the next cow he caught in there eating his apples off the ground, because he fed those apples to his hogs, you know.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The captain had sufficient bunker fuel to get his ship to Brisbane at her most economical speed, but no further.†   (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)
  • RICH No, not a bit profound; it then becomes a purely practical question of how to make him suffer sufficiently.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It had been a sufficiently rash act to buy the book in the beginning, and he had sworn never to come near the place again.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • After a while a fragment smashes away his chin, and the same fragment has sufficient force to tear open Leer's hip.   (source)
    sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • There was a vacant place at a table further away, but something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table.   (source)
    sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
  • They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.   (source)
  • But neither his wife nor his daughter was sufficiently interested to ask an explanation.   (source)
  • He looked sufficiently like a king, but he was ill able to feel like one.   (source)
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