SUFFICE in a Sentence

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For SUFFICE, below is one of 88 sentences:
As three days in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed to clothe her with beauty.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUFFICE
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suffice
 v.  be enough, or sufficient; meet the need; be equal to the end proposed; be adequate; satisfy
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
2  You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does not suffice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
3  Even to see and to show does not suffice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
4  As three days in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed to clothe her with beauty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
5  But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a dynasty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
6  All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
7  As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, it resisted solidly.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
8  To remain in his former uprightness did not suffice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
9  D'Artagnan thought it would suffice for him, and he sprang forward like a dart between them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
10  If it is only to be recognized, why the saddle will suffice for that; it is quite remarkable enough.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
11  Four days would quite suffice to complete the seduction of Felton.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
12  He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  Together they would come at night to the cellar, and their united force would suffice to raise the stone.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
14  A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
15  They would suffice to break off the match.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Example Sentence:
1  Two bottles of wine will suffice for lunch.
2  A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice.
3  Few words to the wise suffice.
4  Generally a brief note or a phone call will suffice.
5  I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well.
6  I believe she was happy in her way: this routine sufficed for her.