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Sentences starting with sufficient

Sufficient to show that a dumb animal's mental machine is just the same as a man's and its reasoning processes the same? [5]
Sufficient time had elapsed since their administration for their proper soothing and exhilarating effects. [9]
Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. [11]

Sentences ending with sufficient

The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
They were people who were beyond reproach, and that was sufficient. [5]
If the coach were full of passengers, two good blankets would probably be sufficient. [5]
In this he was confirmed by his privy secretary, Caspar Slick, whom the Queen had beguiled; and this man, learned in the law, was ready with a decision which the Imperial magistrate gladly agreed to forthwith, as mild yet sufficient. [10]
To my mind truth alone is not sufficient. [11]
They found the thrilling particulars sufficient. [5]
He could not think so, but Gaston had not shown yet, either for model, for daughter of joy, or for the mademoiselles of the stage any disposition to an amour or a misalliance; and either would be interesting and sufficient! [11]
A word about the wretched Burley, whose wicked machinations came so near wrecking the hearts and lives of our poor young friends, will be sufficient. [5]
A nod to the executioner was sufficient. [5]
The other found that fast riding and smoking were not sufficient. [11]

Short sentences using sufficient

Seeking is not sufficient. [5]
It will be sufficient. [5]
This was not sufficient. [11]
One glance was sufficient. [11]
These examples are sufficient precedents. [4]
That is sufficient, sir. [5]
That was sufficient for me. [5]
Here was sufficient exasperation. [11]
The lesson was entirely sufficient. [5]
This is sufficient and conclusive. [5]

Sentences containing sufficient two or more times

The pasturage covering the surface of the Kimberley crater was sufficient for the support of a cow, and the pasturage underneath was sufficient for the support of a kingdom; but the cow did not know it, and lost her chance. [5]
The glaring insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not sufficient to-day; it never will be sufficient while the world stands, perhaps. [5]
If sufficient, they are sufficient out of Congress as well as in it, and there is the end. [7]

More example sentences with the word sufficient in them

You huddle to yourselves already in all countries, but you huddle to no sufficient purpose, politically speaking. [5]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
A fresh chapter would begin tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof. [11]
He enjoyed the world--a sufficient reason why the world should like him. [4]
The privilege of working such a mine one week would be sufficient for a man of reasonable desires. [5]
I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. [5]
She signifies her willingness to continue it by calling again any time within twelve-months; after that, if the parties go on calling upon each other once a year, in our large cities, that is sufficient, and the acquaintanceship holds good. [5]
I hope you will regard the other duties claiming my attention, together with the great length and importance of these documents, as constituting a sufficient apology for not having responded sooner. [7]
A brief summary will be sufficient to recall to the reader's mind the more salient points in this work. [1]
Perhaps that was why, though Shiel loved her, he had had a bitterness which galled his soul; why he had a determination to win sufficient wealth to make himself independent of her. [11]
The Demeter, in whom you proved so marvellously that the art of a mortal is sufficient to create immortals, is beginning to show her gratitude. [10]
Those were hypocrites who criticised him; those were envious who disparaged him; the sufficient ethics of the world she lived in was to be successful and be agreeable. [4]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
While, for reasons which I deem sufficient, I must decline to preside, I cannot withhold my approval of the meeting and its worthy objects. [7]
There had been what they called lesion, and all that kind of thing, and not sufficient strength for recovery. [11]
I have forgotten what reason you assigned for not printing it; I cannot think of any sufficient one. [6]
In support--or shall we say extenuation?--of this opinion I submit that there is not sufficient evidence to warrant the uncertainty which it implies. [5]
Whatever the reason was, he furnished her with means, not only for her necessary expenses, but sufficient to afford her many of the elegances which she would be like to want in the fashionable society with which she was for a short time to mingle. [6]
Still, large as was the promised sum, it would by no means be sufficient to save the Eysvogel business from ruin. [10]
The joint one was that sufficient tickets to insure a good sum should be sold before the date of the performance should be set. [5]
A single glance was sufficient, for these good people so understood each other that Mrs. Merrill had only to raise her eyes to her husband's, and this she did shortly after the supper party began; while she was pouring the coffee, to be exact. [9]
The word "escaped" was sufficient to satisfy the old woman; for her idea of ghosts was that they put others to flight, but did not fly themselves. [10]
The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]
Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
His skill, however, was not sufficient for these city demigods; for the landlord of The Pike intended to look after their table himself. [10]
The angry father was no sufficient witness for him, yet the matter seemed important enough to send for and question Ulrich, though the meal-time had already begun. [10]
But the die was cast now, and pride alone was sufficient to hold me to the course I had rashly begun upon. [9]
There was no visible neglect, no sufficient alienation for gossip to take hold of. [4]
I'm of no use to you--you're sufficient unto yourself. [9]
If they ask us for the sufficient and sound currency we promised, let them be answered that we only promised it through the medium of a national bank, which they, aided by Mr. Tyler, prevented our establishing. [7]
All were agreed upon one point, however: if Congress would make a sufficient appropriation, a colossal benefit would result. [5]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
She had through translations a sufficient knowledge of the classics to give her the necessary literary background, and her study of Latin had led her into the more useful acquisition of French. [4]
It is a town of wide avenues and noble distances, and is comely and alluring, and full of suggestions of comfort and leisure, and of the serenity which a good conscience buttressed by a sufficient bank account gives. [5]
This is often, too, the timid expression of a tender feeling, under Puritanic repression, which has not sufficient vent in the sweet-william and hollyhock at the front door. [4]
It was difficult to supply her wonderfully vigorous intellect with sufficient sustenance, and she really felt that to enrich it was the highest pleasure. [10]
They turned aside to skirt this wall, and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a "maze of gigantic snow crevices,"--so they turned aside again, and "began a long climb of sufficient steepness to make a zigzag course necessary. [5]
I am obliged to say that if looking proud and happy when one is marching were sufficient, he would have been the perfect soldier. [5]
He composed himself to rest and eat some bread and meat, while he waited for a sufficient time to elapse so that he could safely give the horses a drink. [13]
Sometimes they expect to pay for the information furnished them; at other times, the honor of being included in a list of noted personages who have received similar requests is thought sufficient compensation. [6]
Munroe advised me to obtain a subscription to a sufficient number of copies to secure the cost of the publication. [6]
She never sought to know whence the man came; it was sufficient to know whither he had gone, and that he had been hers for a brief dream of life. [11]
It was clear to everyone that the jury must return a verdict of wilful murder, and it was equally clear that the evidence was sufficient to fix suspicion upon Orlando, which must lead to his arrest. [11]
These were sufficient to carry him through in three years, and there was enough profit-sharing from the drug-business he had founded on terms to shelter his mother and his younger brothers, while he took honours at the University. [11]
But we ought to be pleased with it, nevertheless, for we have been in no country yet where we have been so kindly received, and where we felt that to be Americans was a sufficient visa for our passports. [5]
In very prosperous times we might regard our stock and copyrights as assets sufficient, with the money owing to us, to square up and quit even, but I suppose we may not hope for such luck in the present condition of things. [5]
Can you not tie us fast enough, a man and woman of sense sufficient, but you must pause here? [11]
If you went through the ceremony calmly, or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in any present, you are safe beyond question, and in two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men. [7]
The occurrence of three or more closely connected cases, in the practice of one individual, no others existing in the neighborhood, and no other sufficient cause being alleged for the coincidence, is prima facie evidence that he is the vehicle of contagion. [3]
Heinz Schorlin gazed thoughtfully after him a short time, then beckoned to Biberli and, though the interval required for him to reach his master's side was very brief, it was sufficient for the bold young lover, tortured by his ardent longing, to form another idea. [10]
Beecher's recommendation in those days was sufficient to insure the acceptance of any book by any publisher. [4]
A triumph like this, over half a dozen antagonists was sufficient for one day; from that time forward he would patrol the decks beaming blandly upon all comers, and so tranquilly, blissfully happy! [5]
A copy of this order, certified by the Secretary of War and delivered to such judge, shall be deemed and held to be a sufficient commission. [7]
He applied to these people, and offered a reward sufficient to set them at work to capture some of these animals, if such a thing were possible. [6]
I took care, therefore, to allow sufficient time in Liverpool, before sailing for home, to meet such friends, old and recent, as cared to make or renew acquaintance with me. [6]
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? [7]
Very well; since then the appropriation has been made--possibly a sufficient one, certainly not too large a one. [5]
Eng cordially wanted them married, and done with it; but although Chang often asked the momentous question, the young lady could not gather sufficient courage to answer it while Eng was by. [5]
The reading of the words on the slip of paper of which he had so mysteriously got possession (through Mr. Hamilton Tooting) was sufficient to bring about a disorder that for a full minute--Mr. Speaker Doby found it impossible to quell. [9]
The desperado stalked the streets with a swagger graded according to the number of his homicides, and a nod of recognition from him was sufficient to make a humble admirer happy for the rest of the day. [5]
To shoot, throw the spear, ride, hunt, speak the truth, and perhaps also to distinguish between the healing and noxious properties of certain plants: that is deemed a sufficient educational provision for a man's life. [10]
If I succeed, the simple consciousness that I have done a good deed will be a sufficient reward. [5]
Three days after the shipwreck of the Antoine, and as soon as sufficient finery could be got in Quebec, it was accomplished, the fate of Jean Jacques. [11]
They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there. [5]
If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim consequential damages in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned increment, that is to say, usufruct? [5]
I told him, the other day, that an order of any kind from you would be his sufficient warrant for its delivery to you. [5]
He looked at the matting in the long lane before them, and he knew that the bodies which would lie here presently, yielding to the hoofs of the Sheikh's horse, were not sufficient to appease the rabid spirit tearing at the Khedive's soul. [11]
In his eyes the law was embodied in his own person, and in his opinion three months would be amply sufficient to initiate Nitetis in the Magian mysteries, after which process she could become his bride. [10]
The legislation of the last session of Congress has beneficially affected the revenues, although sufficient time has not yet elapsed to experience the full effect of several of the provisions of the acts of Congress imposing increased taxation. [7]
At the end the judge decided to admit the testimony, as the judge usually does in such cases, after a sufficient waste of time in what are called arguments. [5]
The fact that the individuals composing our Supreme Court have, in an official capacity, decided in favor of the constitutionality of the Bank, would, in my mind, seem a sufficient answer to this. [7]
It includes in the first place physical comfort for every person willing and deserving to be physically comfortable, decent lodging, good food, sufficient clothing. [4]
If it had, the face of this man who was once so much to her, and whom she had flung into outer darkness, was sufficient to cast a cloud over it. [11]
The application of the English ticket-of-leave system was one of these efforts; it was based upon the notion that, if any criminal showed sufficient evidence of a wish to lead a different life, he should be conditionally released before the expiration of his sentence. [4]
The citizen was the culprit to start with, just as he is the culprit now, because he does not take sufficient interest in his government to make it honest. [9]
In front of the building veterans of the twenty-first legion paced up and down in the place of the ordinary gate-keepers, who were sufficient protection in times of peace. [10]
It is sufficient that, to all of us who now inhabit the world, the practice of drinking them is just as old as the world itself that is, we have seen the one just as long as we have seen the other. [7]
I am sorry that you cannot yet see with sufficient clearness to save yourself. [9]
Judging from all that we know of man and the lower animals, there has always been sufficient variability in their intellectual and moral faculties, for a steady advance through natural selection. [1]
I was told that this factory could retail its ice, by wagon, throughout New Orleans, in the humblest dwelling-house quantities, at six or seven dollars a ton, and make a sufficient profit. [5]
My contention is that the State should pay its governors a sufficient salary to make them independent of the Northeastern, a salary on which they can live as befits a chief executive. [9]
He finally intimated that one guard would be sufficient to protect us, but that that one was an absolute necessity. [5]
It was then that men began to scoff at him behind his back, though some spoke with sufficient backwoods bluntness to his face. [9]
We all know that class of scientific laborers to whom all facts are alike nourishing mental food, and who seem to exercise no choice whatever, provided only they can get hold of these same indiscriminate facts in quantity sufficient. [6]
I shall read that biography, though the letter of acceptance was amply sufficient to corral my vote without any further knowledge of the man. [5]
Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing. [5]
True, darkness sometimes swallowed this wonderful picture, but an effort of the will was sufficient to show it to him again. [10]
The clan was sufficient unto itself, satisfied with a moderate prosperity and a continually increasing number of descendants. [9]
These matters are sufficient under that head. [5]
The announcement was sufficient to warrant the sensation it produced on all sides. [9]
His selfishness was sufficient to place his own gratification in being spared suffering clear before all concern for me, his friend. [5]
That alone was sufficient to make him tingle with curiosity. [13]
Either exploit is sufficient to make a hero of a common man. [4]
I considered $100,000 sufficient to go home with decently, though it was but a small amount compared to what I had been expecting to return with. [5]
This tax is sufficient to exclude the deserving poor, but it is only an inducement to the vulgar rich, and it is even broken down by the prodigal excursionist, who commonly sets out from home with the intention of being reckless for one day. [4]
I have not sufficient time, if I had the strength, to repeat speeches at every station where the people kindly gather to welcome me as we go along. [7]
There was no sufficient reason now why the Coronation should not take place. [5]
That should be sufficient reason for you to listen. [11]
It was of sufficient personal value to make him quite cheerful as the Antoine plunged and shivered on her way to the country where he could have no steady work as a revolutionist. [11]

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