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Example sentences for "sufficiently"

Lexicographically close words:
sufficeth; sufficiency; sufficient; sufficiente; sufficientlie; sufficing; sufficit; suffin; suffisant; suffisaunt
  1. The shock of the cold water revived Olan's faculties sufficiently for him to get a death grip on Jim.

  2. Then she noticed that Tini's attention had wandered sufficiently from her companion to recognize them.

  3. He had aspired to be emperor, and he was at least sufficiently imperial in his ideas of expense.

  4. The scientific results of this ever-memorable voyage might be deemed sufficiently meagre were the fact that the eggs of wild geese did not grow on trees its only recorded discovery.

  5. The occurrence was certainly dramatic, but, as one might think, sufficiently void of mystery.

  6. He honestly loved the girl with a passion which was sufficiently great to consider her future before his own gratification.

  7. By this time he was sufficiently himself to come to a decision.

  8. Indeed, he had timed his entrance with that in mind, and although the unglazed window openings were covered with a thick overgrowth of vines, enough light filtered through to enable him to see sufficiently clearly.

  9. The severe straining the ship had got had made her take in water, not seriously, but at a sufficiently rapid rate to require a good deal of pumping.

  10. She was still sufficiently a child of nature to be awed by this display of its terrible force.

  11. The timber-work defences at the front were sufficiently extensive to bar the entire way by which the Normans must come in their march northward from their camps.

  12. I believe them to be sufficiently accurate, and that you may depend upon their instructive value.

  13. The only danger in his methods was that he acted on impulse without sufficiently informing himself of the matter in hand, or hearing both sides of a controversy.

  14. Charles was sufficiently appeased to address the crowd as "My children," and to assure them that if they would but meet him in peaceful conference, their grievances should be redressed.

  15. Delighted he was, therefore, to act as mediator between father and son after the duke was in a sufficiently pacified state to listen to reason.

  16. But, if so, then the objection that the Goetar are not a sufficiently maritime people becomes untenable.

  17. Yet this dry reference serves to show that Bjar must once have been sufficiently famous to have a horse specially his own[89].

  18. It is no disrespect to the memory of Hickes, a scholar to whom we are all indebted, to recognize frankly that his transcripts are not sufficiently accurate to make them at all a satisfactory substitute for the original MS.

  19. I don't say that all these people couldn't be squared; but it is right to tell you that I shouldn't be sufficiently degraded in my own estimation unless I was insulted with a very considerable bribe.

  20. Indeed Mrs. Tunnygate found it so difficult to rouse Mrs. Appleboy into a state of belligerency sufficiently interesting that she soon transferred her energies to the more worthy task of making Appleboy's life a burden to him.

  21. The Greenes lent him books, the schoolmaster kept him in mind and helped him as he could, and even the village cooper let him come into his shop and keep up a fire of shavings sufficiently bright to read by at night.

  22. I am sufficiently alive, friend, at any rate to serve Lady Patience to the end.

  23. The "Defence" bore the brunt of the conflict, for the four schooners did not come to sufficiently close quarters to be of much assistance against the enemy.

  24. It was not a great naval war, for the belligerent nations were not sufficiently well matched in naval strength.

  25. The Picaroons were deceived sufficiently to make a dash upon the two ships, and approach boldly within easy gunshot; then, discovering their mistake, they turned and fled in panic.

  26. Promptly giving chase, the armed vessel soon overtook the merchantmen sufficiently to send a shot skipping along the crests of the waves, as a polite Invitation to stop.

  27. The pictures form of themselves a story, and while sufficiently literal to be easily read, they at the same time possess that quality of suggestiveness which is only associated with work of a creative order.

  28. Even if a man's suffering be a far inheritance, for the curing of which by faith and obedience this life would not be sufficiently long, faith and obedience will yet render it endurable to the man, and overflow in help to his fellow-sufferers.

  29. The wise and the prudent, with all their energy of thought, could never see the things of the Father sufficiently to recognize them as true.

  30. Geordie, indeed, was the only person sufficiently careless of his lungs to attempt the medium of speech, and then his conversation was pitched in the same key as when he performed his herding functions.

  31. He had already opened the book at one of the little lessons near the end which he seemed to think he had not sufficiently mastered in the "schoolin' days" already far away in the distance to the little herd-boy.

  32. This is proved sufficiently by the fact that only what are considered to be the more vitalising portions of the boy's body are eaten, whereas if gluttony were the impulse of the deed the whole of the body would be consumed.

  33. Though strange and interesting, on the plea that the family is quite sufficiently represented, the derelict was unwelcome, save as a living proof of the practicability of natural transports.

  34. This palisading formed the base of an embankment of packed grass and rubbish, sufficiently tight to raise the level of the stream about three feet.

  35. No tongue can express or praise sufficiently his benefits.

  36. He afterwards married her, and then for the first time became sufficiently rich to turn the thoughts which slumbered within him to higher subjects than procuring his daily bread.

  37. In this, however, as above remarked, neither subject nor order of time was sufficiently considered.

  38. The colder it is at that time, the greater is the number of degrees it will have to rise before it is sufficiently baked, and the more opportunity will the gas have to expand.

  39. When the waffle is sufficiently brown, remove it; then grease the iron and repeat the process.

  40. With the iron properly greased and sufficiently hot, place several spoonfuls of the batter in the center and close the iron.

  41. This is called hulled, or whole, wheat, and requires soaking or long, slow cooking in order that all its starch granules may be reached and softened sufficiently to make it palatable.

  42. As soon as the rising is completed and the food has baked sufficiently on the bottom, it should be moved up so that it will brown on the top.

  43. If the toothpick comes out without particles of dough adhering, the mixture is sufficiently baked in that place and consequently throughout the loaf.

  44. When sufficiently mashed, season with additional salt, a dash of pepper, and a small piece of butter, and add hot milk until they are thinned to a mushy consistency, but not too soft to stand up well when dropped from a spoon.

  45. When sufficiently dry, the rods are removed, leaving slender tubes, or sticks, that have holes through the center.

  46. When it has risen sufficiently for the last time, depending on the process employed, it should be kneaded again, if it must be reduced in size, and then shaped into loaves and put in the pans.

  47. In this cooking process, the fat is placed in a shallow pan, and when it is sufficiently hot, the food is put into it.

  48. By the time the cakes are sufficiently browned on both sides, they should be cooked through and ready to serve.

  49. The food in the cooker is allowed to cook over the lighted burner until sufficient heat has been retained or the process has been carried sufficiently far to permit the cooking to continue without fire.

  50. After it has risen sufficiently in the greased pans, proceed with the baking.

  51. He received me very courteously; but it must be confest that his apartment and furniture and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth.

  52. Fifth: After the draft has been continued for a few minutes, the coal becomes sufficiently incandescent to start the production of gas, which may be ascertained by trying to light the gas at the test-cock near the generator.

  53. Most gas-engine users either have no indicating instruments at their disposal or else are not sufficiently versed in their employment and the interpretation of their records to study perturbations by their means.

  54. In order to obviate this difficulty, a pressure-regulator should be chosen with discrimination, and of sufficiently large size to insure the maintenance of an adequate supply of gas to the engine.

  55. As a general rule when the cap is placed in position the joint should be retightened after a certain time, when the surfaces have become sufficiently heated.

  56. In other words, the surfaces are themselves sufficiently cohesive to insure perfect tightness.

  57. This will not only result in the production of a poorer gas, but will lead to greater wear of the grates, which in this case are not sufficiently cooled by the introduction of steam.

  58. This arrangement may be adequate enough for small engines; but it is not sufficiently sure for engines of considerable size.

  59. The bearing with its independent support is sufficiently rigid, and is not subjected to any stress from the crank at the moment of explosion, the reaction of the crank affecting only the frame bearings.

  60. The employment of pipes of sufficiently large cross-section to constitute expansion-boxes in themselves will also muffle the exhaust.

  61. The mere discovery of any of these defects sufficiently indicates the means to be adopted in remedying them.

  62. In a previous chapter, the importance of the water circulation and the necessity of keeping the cylinder-jacket hot, have been sufficiently dwelt upon.

  63. The opening of the test-cock should be so regulated as to reduce the outlet pressure of the gas sufficiently to prevent the flame from going out.

  64. If a valve be clogged, which becomes sufficiently evident by manipulating the controlling levers, it is necessary simply to clean the stem and its guides in order to remove the caked oil which accumulates in time.

  65. The centrifugal governor should be sufficiently effectual to prevent variations in the number of revolutions within the limits of 2 to 3 per cent.

  66. They are not sufficiently numerous to make the life assurance companies think it worth their while to offer them special rates.

  67. This lecture will take place as soon as a sum of money has been sent to this office sufficiently large to justify him in renting a hall for one hour's uninterrupted profanity-sixty minutes of careful, accurate, and elaborate cursing.

  68. The palæographic peculiarities of the inscription sufficiently bear out the idea of the monument being of the date or era which I have ventured to assign to it--a point the weight and importance of which it is unnecessary to insist upon.

  69. This copy belongs to the Royal Library in Paris, and the orthography alone sufficiently determines it to have been made by an Anglo-Saxon scribe or editor.

  70. To make the water in which it was dipped sufficiently medicinal and effective, the stone, during the process, required to be held in the hand of the Laird.

  71. It is certainly still even sufficiently legible and entire to prove unmistakably the accuracy of the reading of it given upwards of a century and a half ago by Lhwyd and Sibbald.

  72. Maybe she wasn't terribly good, or sufficiently drilled, yet, in her routines.

  73. Out here, free of the grip of any large sphere, there was hardly a limit to the load which their ionics could eventually accelerate sufficiently to travel tremendous distances.

  74. It was some time before they comprehended what he meant, and longer still before they could collect their senses sufficiently to be of any use.

  75. Isabella's talents were remarkable, but neither herself nor her family were sufficiently aware of this while they received only an irregular and imperfect cultivation.

  76. Chapelizod, now a sufficiently populous suburb, was then the little village of Chappell Isoud, said to be so called from that Belle Isoud, daughter of King Anguish of Ireland, who was beloved by Tristram.

  77. There is a colored print of about this time which gives a sufficiently vivid presentment of the fair.

  78. He proposed one measure in the first instance to accomplish this end; but that not being sufficiently comprehensive, he introduced another bill, which was finally adopted by both Houses of Parliament.

  79. It was a smaller aperture, even, than that through which we had come forth from the Cave of the Dead, and how El Sabio was able to condense himself sufficiently to get through it will remain a puzzle to me to my dying day.

  80. It had not occurred to any of us that El Sabio might be condensed sufficiently to go through the narrow way; but if he truly were the collapsable donkey that Pablo declared him to be, we had a good deal to be thankful for.

  81. In itself this was sufficiently marvellous; but what increased the marvel of it was the conviction, strong within us both, that if the hidden city of Culhuacan ever had existed at all it existed still.

  82. The days are past, in the East, when a public treasure can be deposited in a place sufficiently sacred to guard it from the hands of plunderers.

  83. They appeared to be people of very sober habits and quiet demeanour, but avaricious in the extreme; and their want of charity was sufficiently proved by their treatment of the destitute fugitives who had joined the caravan at Wady Fatme.

  84. To those who seek the most accurate information respecting places but little known, this work is sufficiently recommended by the name of its author, and of the country which it describes.

  85. Every house of moderate size has its cistern; but as the rains are not sufficiently regular or abundant to fill the cisterns from the tops of the houses, (as [p.

  86. My little stock of money was therefore spent during my illness, and before I was sufficiently recovered to walk out.

  87. Similar towers are seen at the other entrances of the town, and they are sufficiently spacious to contain about twenty men.

  88. Amongst the palm-trees grow a few tamarinds, or Thamr Hindy, the green fruit of which was now sufficiently ripe and pleasant.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sufficiently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sufficiently done; sufficiently high; sufficiently large; sufficiently proved