suffice
verb (used without object)
to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
had sufficed
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past perfectof suffice.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A green card had sufficed for Miguel Escobar, 56, a Houston resident who was brought to Texas from Mexico as a toddler.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
He told Reuters that he tried going twice as fast to make up for a sluggish day and agonized at his kitchen table over whether his performance had sufficed.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2022
“Once upon a time,” this writer named Charles thinks, “it had sufficed to write ‘The Sound and the Fury’ or ‘The Sun Also Rises.’
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2015
“Steady, men,” cried Claverton again, as the whole force knelt behind the light breastwork of thorn-bushes, which a quarter of an hour’s work had sufficed to throw round the camp when they first halted.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Well might they stare; five hours and a quarter had sufficed for 6500 feet of ascent.101 We screamed triumphantly as they turned in to breakfast.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
