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Example sentences for "great enough"

  • And the innocent being sacrificed must be great enough to atone for the world; There was but one such being--God.

  • The master cannot be great enough to make slavery sweet.

  • In this connection it must be remembered that the expansion of the metal when heated may be great enough to cause serious distortion and to provide against this is one of the difficulties to be overcome.

  • In the case of cast iron and steel the temperature at the point to be welded should be great enough to produce a dull red heat.

  • We have seen that, to produce the phenomena of the Glacial age, it was absolutely necessary that it must have been preceded by a period of heat, great enough to vaporize all the streams and lakes and a large part of the ocean.

  • The ordinary child needs the mother's milk no longer, for by this time the digestive power is great enough to cope with cow's milk and various starches.

  • The financial reward is great enough to tempt men to break the law and they will continue to do so, so long as present conditions exist.

  • In self-protection it begins to secrete an excess of mucus and if the irritation is great enough, pus.

  • The diameter of the openings through the wall should be great enough to prevent any visible discharge of current between the wire and wall under the worst conditions of snow, rain, fog, or dust.

  • Now you will swear allegiance to might that is great enough to wipe Demarzule from the face of civilization.

  • A creature whose imagination and daring were great enough to preserve his ego through an age of five hundred thousand years deserves something more than summary execution.

  • Still the fleet crept up, lessening the distance between them, but Underwood felt confident that the distance between their parallel courses was great enough to prevent detection by any means the fleet could mount.

  • They who would rise to the level of his life must be great enough to lay down their life for their own sins.

  • What is the objection, if one be great enough to make so great a sacrifice?

  • No catastrophe can be great enough, no ruin wide-spread enough, to engulf or blot out the wisdom of the world.

  • One of the greatest lines in our literature is his, and the line is great enough to do honor to the greatest genius that has ever lived.

  • In order that the arc may burn uniformly, the current density must be great enough to force all of the electrode points into use.

  • If a spot lamp is turned upward, the heat of the arc rising will be great enough to make condenser breakage a very serious problem.

  • The height must be great enough to allow the scenery to be hoisted out of sight above the proscenium opening.

  • Still another type of spring is where a fissure or fracture crosses a water-bearing layer in which the pressure is great enough to cause the water to rise to the surface along the relatively open fissure or fracture.

  • But the river flowed into the gulf, while in the dry climate the evaporation was great enough to gradually dry away the salt lake.

  • The theme is great enough to engage the highest faculties of the human mind, and in the investigation of such a subject vituperation is singularly and vulgarly out of place.

  • No cause is great enough to demand a sacrifice of candor.

  • Whenever the current is great enough just to neutralize the normal magnetism of one pole and to double that of the other, no increase in current will cause the device to ring any louder.

  • Not infrequently these occasional waves are great enough to overwhelm persons who are upon the rocks next the shore.

  • The effect ought to be great enough to be measurable by astronomers in the course of a thousand years.

  • Computation shows that the amount of this action should be great enough gradually to lengthen the day, or the time occupied by the earth in making a complete revolution on the polar axis.

  • May we not say that there is a size of the spheroid such that the pressure will not be great enough to produce liquefaction at any other place than the centre?

  • Though the requisite pressure will not exist near the surface, there is evidently, in a large spheroid, a depth below the surface at which the pressure will be great enough, if the temperature is sufficiently low.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great enough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great abilities; great armie; great artists; great beauty; great body; great comfort; great confusion; great distress; great fright; great horse; great lady; great love; great many; great might; great painter; great perfection; great quantitie; great saving; great service; great ship; great sorrow; great statesman; great traveller; great wealth; great wind; greatly superior