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

Hitherto the wall had sufficed for this purpose, the ditch being useful mainly to prevent the besieger from bringing up his engines of attack.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The time he had occupied in pouring forth these queries had sufficed to send Eliza's historian asleep.

From That Little Beggar by Hall, E. King