Two minutes' quick rowing sufficed to carry our flotilla of boats across the basin, and so brought us to the long pier that extended landward from beside the water-gate, and from which an open stair-way ascended to the top of the wall.
The soft material, so fragile with age that a touch sufficedto reduce it still further to rags, was made with a full skirt and plain waist, and still showed traces of a yellow color and a sprigged design.
A very few moments and a very few words sufficedto explain to Harley the state of his old fellow-soldier's orphan.
Peterkin replied by pointing with a look of anxious dread towards the horizon; and a glance sufficed to show us that one of the largest sized war-canoes was approaching us!
Quarter of an hoursufficed to bring us to the over-hanging cliff under whose black shadow our little canoe lay, with her bow in the water ready to be launched, and most of her cargo already stowed away.
A small aperture, about the middle of it, sufficed for the emission of his words.
These three days sufficed to enable the intended victim to make his escape, and he accordingly left the kingdom.
Whether the arguments of the King convinced the two nobles, or their loyalty sufficed to render them conscious of their error, is unimportant.
Had Charles kept the imperial crown for his son, as he might have done, Philip's imperial position must have sufficed to give him control of the civilized world.
The old gentleman again interposed, and a few words sufficedto restore perfect peace; and so they all went to Herr Elias's house to dinner, for he had invited the strangers home with him.
The neighbouring nobility, and even amateur lovers of the chase who lived in the town hard by, came down in such numbers that the main building, together with the wings, barely sufficed to hold the crowd of guests.
Fortunately the provisions that we took, and the fresh fish caught for us by the natives, just sufficed to carry us through with comfort and with health.
Many of the materials will yield light which will require to be studied by much more elaborate artifices than those which have sufficed for us.
Our system would have to be enormously bigger before it sufficed to cover anything like the area of the sky included in one of these great objects.
Doubtless the rules of this discipline escaped them, but the harmonious spectacle of the starry night sufficed to give them the impression of regularity, and that was in itself already a great thing.
For that it sufficed to assume that a 'convection current,' that is to say a charged conductor in motion, could act on the galvanometer.
It would have sufficed to deflect it a tenth of a millimeter and Napoleon would not have been born and the destinies of a continent would have been changed.
Without doubt some artifice analogous to those we have discussed above would have sufficed to remove the contradiction; but, as this is met with only in very exceptional cases, it has received no further attention.
Alonso had not returned; he had not returned, though less than an hour would have sufficed for his errand.
Dombes did not pay any impost to the King, and this fact alone sufficed to render it prosperous.
A single quarter of an hour had sufficed to bring back to him his freedom of spirit, and he made an effort to regain the affections of his daughter.
A few meetings sufficed to settle the terms, which were reduced to writing on the 6th of July.
Indeed, the privileges claimed for the members of the House might alone have sufficed to excite opposition.
He undertook the task, but three days sufficed to show that the King's favour was no match for the Parliamentary influence of the great Whig party, of which Newcastle was the acknowledged leader.
Formerly, the slightest hint, or mere fancied coldness in tone or glance, had sufficed to repulse him: now, positive rudeness could not drive him away.
A few moments of calm consideration would have sufficed to show the danger of the undertaking, and the comparative worthlessness of the prize.
The besieged were now obliged to deny themselves the luxury of their baths; the wells in the quarters of the city at a distance from the river scarcely sufficed for drinking water.
A couple of hours' work sufficed to complete my small requisition, with which I returned to the Kasanumi.
A single glance sufficed to show that they were Russian craft, for they were of a different model from ours, and their four funnels were arranged differently from ours, being in pairs.
We are told that a third of his revenue sufficed for the ordinary expenses of government, a third was hoarded and a third spent on buildings.
In drawing from nature, his habit was to sketch very slightly, making only such a memorandum as sufficed to work from.
Whatever may have been the demerits of that system, it sufficed to maintain the navy in the time of its greatest achievements, and through all the wars which were waged with the Spaniards, the Dutch and the French.
The Bulgarians had been represented in St Petersburg and Moscow not only as martyrs but also as saints, and a very little personal experience sufficed to correct the error.
A very little drilling sufficed to put these new recruits in order for presentation on the stage, for they had little to do but to follow directions as to where they must stand, and when they must go on and off.
On this occasion the Duke's advances barely sufficed to stave off disaster.
But reading by the light of one candle, though it sufficed our forefathers, is hard on our degenerate eyes.
It was about ten months since we had last seen him; but that time had sufficed to make an alteration of years in his appearance.
A superficial glance sufficed to convince that there was little sincerity either in their dispute or reconciliation.
The ascendency of his character, the gravity of his manners, and, at certain moments, the passionate overflowing of his soul, invested him with an authority which his abilities and knowledge would scarcely have sufficed to command.
The indemnity to the emigrants, some pledges of local influence, and the distribution of public functions, would have long sufficed to secure their support to M.
Then the holy man distributed the wheat to every man after that he had need, in such wise that it sufficed for two years, not only for to sell, but also to sow.
But it is to be feared that the exemplary boyhood of St. Nicholas would hardly in itself have sufficed to give him so firm a hold on the affections of children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sufficed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
