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How to use sufficed in a sentence

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At first, a stepladder sufficed us, but soon an aluminum extension ladder was required for the higher fruit picking.
A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.
Why did the live model have to be naked when a body stocking would have sufficed?
The albums went out of print, and we sufficed with an aptly named best-of, Ear-Bleeding Country.
That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler.
Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle.
She tried to smile warmly at him, but it turned more into a grimace, so she sufficed with a simple wave before walking on.
If wealth to pursue an expansionist programme were all that was needed, would not the booty obtained from Hindu rajas have sufficed?
In urban areas not subject to traditional governing bodies, these alternative agencies often sufficed.
In such glorious surroundings, a slice of dry bread and a plank would have sufficed.
In any case, my mental state bordered on madness, and twenty-four hours of Paris sufficed to restore me to my equilibrium.
He chose to snap for goal when a conventional drop punt would have sufficed.
A simple one sentence answer would have sufficed the patient but the doctor just could not keep his explanation concise.
The small shower in his own bathroom and the chemical toilet sufficed for pressing hygienic needs.
Thus the simple chanting and praying of the early days could not have sufficed the new extended demands.
The traditional public religion of the Roman State had sufficed for public purposes, but offered little to the individual.
Through all this he lived in the College too, in a single small room that sufficed for his bachelor requirements.
Their profits, partly from spices, sufficed to make Venice, Genoa, Florence, and other city-states almost as rich and powerful as the caliphate of Egypt.
The practice of yearly appeals by the Secretary-General has not sufficed to keep up the momentum, even though constant progress has been made.
Any sharp objects would have sufficed, particularly when coupled with the bluff of having a bomb.
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A quick glance at the retractible landing gear sufficed to satisfy her that the wheels were securely blocked.
Five minutes sufficed for this job, and we then reset our topgallant-sail and flying-jib, and shifted our gaff-topsail.
A small aperture, about the middle of it, sufficed for the emission of his words.
Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
The nickel mixture was not quite like the Turkish blend in the humidor jar on the Kincaid Terrace mantel, but it sufficed.
Crossed diplopia could be produced with a red glass, tenotomy of the left abducens sufficed to correct it.
In such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.
No less than this would have sufficed to gain for you this rescript of Her Majesty.
If you are a woodsman, ten or fifteen minutes has sufficed to accomplish all this.
Had it not sufficed for him to break with them, after pillaging them, to make his own fortune?
A scuffle in a tavern at Elisabethgrad in Kherson sufficed to ignite this combustible material.
A moment sufficed to unlatch it, and swinging it back, he crawled in on all-fours, closing it after him with the greatest caution.
But thirteen years have sufficed to bog the German movement in the swamps of parliamentarianism.
A few minutes sufficed to bring them to the beach at the mouth of the adit.
A quarter of an hour sufficed to metamorphose Bathurst into an Oude peasant.
The renter proved an indifferent farmer, and the rent scarcely sufficed to pay the taxes and winter the cattle.
A few days sufficed to convince us that chatelain's fears as to our official relations with the new chief were vain.
Not all my kicks and cuffs and beatings had sufficed one whit to repulse him.
Ehrlich's demonstration of megaloblasts has sufficed for this logical advance.
It has sufficed me now for some years, and, in addition, I receive certain gratuities.
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