had sufficed
- past perfect of suffice.
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
The swelling of the bodies had sufficed to bring them to the surface, stone and all.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
“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 Mitford, Bertram
