How To Use Enough In A Sentence

He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
A repair job is bad enough; but an investment in managerial ego is worse. MANAGING FOR RESULTS
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney

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You've got to put in work before you reap the rewards - and fair enough.
I can't commend the players highly enough. The Sun
He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton
No battery could store enough energy to turn over a car's engine.
I have said enough elsewhere to discredit such notions.
Now, you two, that's quite enough. Sit down and be quiet.
he didn't get enough sleep last night
Hopefully, with two and a half days work last week I made enough money to cover my costs.
Enough to raise themselves to the same level of transcendence.
In both cases, significant constituencies had been left to rot, unattended, and they'd had enough.
It's not possible or desirable to build enough roads for free-flowing traffic. Times, Sunday Times
Sure enough, he found her there, looking at the posted casualty reports along with many others, searching the alphabetized lists of KIAs and WIAs.
The new film just seems to be skirting round things; it hasn't been brave enough.
Even if the knock is not severe enough to cause the skull to fracture, the brain bangs against the skull and can be damaged.
The logo has to be big enough to be readable from a distance (10-15 feet, say). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Would you like to give me some stylistic feedback?
Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.
The effect of these pressures is there to see if you look hard enough. Times, Sunday Times
It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
The story of the guilt-ridden woman who knows she can never be a good enough mother is beautifully judged in its mixture of comedy and depression.
After this she was not strong enough to work in interventional cardiology and devoted herself to clinical and diagnostic cardiology.
Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
The Australian was interested in Iroquois Falls because the Paper Company owns the whole town; they have made the streets and the municipality, and the stores, and they were good enough to rent premises to Dr. Monteith for his liquor store, to make some revenue. Northern Ontario
A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth. Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
It's a different world in which technical brilliance is not always enough. Times, Sunday Times
See, Stuart is like all the rest of the blood thirsty criminals in D.C., … ya seel hundreds of thousands more brown people will be killed because he's arrognt enough, he's evil enough and doggonnit Satan likes him! Franken Tells Pickens To Blow it Elsewhere « Antiwar.com Blog
As each of them look under the table, he screams and bangs his head, creating enough commotion to bring the whole café to his attention.
They claim the vermin-annoyers show no consistent success or, sometimes, no success at all. They're not approved for use by commercial pest-control companies because not enough is known about potential side effects.
I have had my share of stalkers and lechers and most times, I am careful enough not to allow it to lead to something dangerous. Passing Time
Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
Are you warm enough or do you want the fire on?
Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this. GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney
The temperature was warm enough to be outside, and there was no rain to deal with.
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
But by golly, if you believe it, that's good enough for me.
Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents.
On fair skin, pale shades are delicate enough not to overpower your colouring.
He took nourishment from press conferences, where he was notably generous, but not bountiful enough to promise a match.
Indeed, there are times when the pedestrian traffic through the cemetery and around its perimeter is heavy enough to make one think about the need for a stop light inside.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
No doubt some of these are metrosexuals, those city-dwelling gents with more than enough disposable income to spend on clothes, restaurants, the latest gadgets, exotic holidays and eyebrow waxing.
Is that anger enough to overturn governments and rattle the founding idea of Europe? Times, Sunday Times
However high you choose this super resolution, the day will come when it's not enough.
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.
Pot into individual containers once they are big enough and grow on until they can be planted out.
‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
The dressings are fairly minimal just enough to cover and protect the stitches. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
If we look dumb enough, someone's bound to come and help us out.
If slipping into your jammies and turning off the lights isn't enough to give you mental refreshment, or if stress and anxiety leave your brain a mess, try one of these mental-acuity agents.
It was not light enough to see things clearly.
To be a champion, skill is not enough you have to have the right temperament.
He left with few regrets, happy that his game on clay had never been better, although disappointed that, yet again, his best was not good enough to beat a slightly underdone Nadal. Rafael Nadal boxed clever to beat Roger Federer in French Open | Kevin Mitchell
Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
That's about four acres under cultivation - enough to produce a total harvest last year of about 10,000 bundles.
Earning enough to be able to spend time with my family. Times, Sunday Times
We're moving forward faster than any country in the world, but for me it's not going fast enough
From the time that I was tall enough to peer over the low, white-painted wall behind the goals, I would attend Easter Road: week in, week out.
‘I wish I was rich enough to use fivers as scrap paper,’ remarked Caroline.
Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
This'll be a feather in her cap, right enough, a princess named after her.
An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger.
The songs are irritatingly infectious with enough angst to keep the moodiest teenagers frowning.
After accumulating enough data, we calculated that each person spent at least a full minute in a stall.
I catch a glimpse of a celeb in heavy makeup and not enough clothes.
The glass she was leaning on was long enough to be in two rooms, the kitchen and the living room with the study.
Heat the olive oil over a medium heat in a heavy pan big enough to hold all the asparagus in one layer. Times, Sunday Times
Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. Thoughts on Narnia
If you desire something strong enough and are determined to get it, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish. Dr Roopleen
He had enough enthusiasm about the project to convince me to write a synopsis. Times, Sunday Times
Rachel and a friend of hers were standing at the end of the parking lot, and hearing them yell my name perked me up enough to make it to the track itself. From the Mind of the Dawnie
Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
With her legs curled under her on a sofa, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
As an added bonus the DVD actually has enough extra content that it can be considered a special edition.
His mother's liniment was prime stuff, and allowed him to move the limb often enough to keep the kinks worked out.
“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. Westward Ho!
Enough's enough, Katya," Jerry said, doing his best to sound authoritative. COLDHEART CANYON
I've had enough of that boy's cheek.
Regular testing of influent to determine when the grit content is low enough to handle in the plant. Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Waste Water and Mitigation Strategies
Well, it wasn't rock and roll as you would recognise it but there was certainly enough power and decibels to give the lugholes a good stinging.
Tony Abbott certainly believes if you repeat it often enough a baseless assertion becomes fact.
For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
The Cologne goalkeeper signalled his potential by publicly attacking the legendary Bayern Munich Maoist Paul Breitner for his heavy drinking, smoking and gambling though not, strangely enough, for his scrofulous appearance. Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
Our conversation ended well enough, and he did suggest arbitration if I wanted it.
I know enough about this issue to know that ESEA is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the main federal law authorizing federal financial assistance to schools whose most recent instantiation is also known as No Child Left Behind. Matthew Yglesias » The Pointlessness of Reading Bills
But suppose, Maggie, suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
To a wise man one word is enough.
In deeper waters, not enough light penetrates the depths, which means the reef's main food producers, algae and plankton, cannot photosynthesize.
The crispy duck wasn't crispy enough. Times, Sunday Times
Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille! Wild Nature Won By Kindness
They look good and we're in the process now of trying to scale up the capability of the manufacturers to be able to make enough of this so that we would be able to have a reasonable stockpile.
It is enough to give the hardened British holidaymaker a complex. Times, Sunday Times
True enough, there was a tell-tale head-shaped indentation on my pillow this morning, but that could mean anything.
I live with my nan and grandad and it will be extremely difficult for me to pay as we do not have enough money.
I was unfortunate enough to have an accident while on holiday in Minorca, where I spent eight days in hospital after an operation for a broken hip.
If you are intelligent and disciplined enough to read dense books, then why do you lack faith in your own abilities to show discipline with a television set?
Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
These are ridiculous enough on their own without resorting to ageism or sizeism. Times, Sunday Times
This, Stuart was told, would give enough time to detach the hooks from their mouths and let them free, with relatively little danger to the catcher.
Enough fluid should be removed to soften the fontanel, usually 10 to 15 ml.
There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
However, acaricides do not penetrate far enough to kill mites deep inside the mattress and so are not as effective as when used on carpeting.
The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough? Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott
She has sunk into the background in the past two weeks - friends say that she has had enough of the stress and has decided to no longer face the public gaze.
But dutifully stenographed Greg, as always, with enough practice you might become a fax machine. Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them"
It took a while to get to know each other well enough to actually confide in one another.
Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
It was laying on its front and looked as if its head had been resting in its folded arms before rising up enough to let one of its unblinking eyes stare at Kyri through strands of long red hair.
They earn enough to buy what they need themselves. The Sun
Cheaper jet fuel means we save money by flying to Florida with enough go-juice to make it both ways. Undefined
My finger tapped the ‘J’ key over and over, but not hard enough to make a letter appear on the screen.
We've had enough, John. We want out.
There's little enough sign of human habitation from above. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
I can't commend the players highly enough. The Sun
Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
People who take enough provitamin A are less likely to get cancer, especially lung cancer. The Antioxidant Health Plan
Can the other teams raise their games enough to counterbalance that potential falloff?
It won't be until that age that they've earned enough money to enable them to live a simple life in retirement.
His breadth of knowledge is amazing enough.
Elsewhere, the Abbey National is offering a #50 cashback sweetener to encourage borrowers to stick with them, ‘because life's complicated enough’.
Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over.
While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful.
Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
The denouement when the birthday comes is surprising enough not to spoil, but again there is something uneasy about it. Times, Sunday Times
Jean is well enough now to consider her return to work .
The procedure for home inspectors must be flexible enough to adapt to a diverse range of disputes. Times, Sunday Times
As mentioned earlier, these visceral adipocytes already have high rates of lipolysis, which is bad enough. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves?
It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.
Once you've collected a hundred or so caddises then you've got enough to go fishing with - and you can often get ten caddis grubs off a single stone.
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
Stir in the flour mixture and the sultanas, adding just enough milk to make a soft dough. Times, Sunday Times
According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
The intent was to redirect some of the hunters' energy from shooting game to caring for it, thereby preserving enough game to satisfy increasing numbers of hunters.
He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
These public spats are genuine enough. Times, Sunday Times
Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan big enough to hold everything, including the pears.
Add it up and there's a business resilient enough to handle 2.5 per cent food deflation. Times, Sunday Times
Add enough milk to make the mixture a fairly stiff consistency. Times, Sunday Times
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. John F. Kennedy
First came a wonderfully tooled pair of soft doe-skin boots, delicate enough to wear with nice dresses, but sturdy enough to wear in everyday use.
It is up to you to decide whether sparkling stop-motion animation, catchy music, and a hearty dose of dry British humor is enough to overcome an uninvolving allegorical plot.
Enough time had now elapsed since our last newly afflicted patient to conclude that the epidemic was over. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
And so you just ding the enemies to death, and they're dumb enough to let you do it.
And Mike was hornswoggled enough to replace some of his martial graphics with a picture of some nice mountain scenery.
An aioli aromatic with coriander seed and lemon (mayo at its most celestial) makes for a strange and interesting contrast - not to mention the fact that it is good enough to eat straight.
Sure enough, hidden in a corner there was a shelf dedicated to the previous school years' yearbooks.
Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.
On paper, Italy have enough heavy artillery to do something similar on Saturday evening.
The briefest rinse under a running tap will be enough.
Anyone from the mainland U.S. who has spent enough time in Hawaii often gets the message, "O.K. haole, come here, spend your money and then go home."
We struggled with their wrestling style of tackling and didn't adapt quickly enough. Times, Sunday Times
One particular challenge has been finding enough sterile manufacturing capacity to produce the vaccine. Times, Sunday Times
This time around, spending caps may not be enough.
As if all that were not trouble enough, the landlord lets a goat loose in the flat.
Stir in enough additional flour to make soft dough.
The surface of the land is scattered with fragments of white silex and fine red jasper, banded with black oligistic iron: this rock, close, hard, and fine enough to bear cutting, appears everywhere in scatters and amongst the conglomerates. The Land of Midian
Mortars are also employed, but are done so from a truck platform, or if dismounted, are dismounted quickly and only long enough to drop rounds and then remount the truck and exfiltrate.
A bout of fierce fighting gave the rest of the English fleet enough time to come to the rescue and begin attacking the convoy. Times, Sunday Times
For theories solid enough to be part of the magisterium, contrarianism is out at the social fringes, as noted. Consensus: the "refuge of scoundrels"
Their brashness is real enough, but they accept their packaging as the price of being published. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Pink Ghetto
I'm not strong enough to carry him.
It was big enough to walk around but you could always see the edges. Times, Sunday Times
I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
If that's not enough, you can book ahead to fire up and drive a steam engine for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
One rubber-tyred option was prematurely discarded by a now-disgraced former mayor as not developed enough, even though the cost would have been half that of lrt. Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog
She tugged at Rob's sleeve with just enough force to suggest that she would tug much harder if he did not comply with her wishes.
They didn't see each other very often, except for chance meetings at meal times, when they felt strong enough to go to the mess hall.
Let me be quite candid with you: your work is not good enough.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys. Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
And Obama was taken back when there was an outcry over his lamebrain ideal and he criticized the vets for not being patriotic. 2012 can't come soon enough! Obama shifts focus to Iraq, Afghanistan wars
He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.
We got close enough to see them with binoculars but not close enough for photographs.
If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee. The Vatican Rip
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
It seems fans can't get enough of this overweight, near-sighted, lovable lunk who fights zombies from inside his favorite pub.
The other passengers felt confident enough to laugh about and comment on the situation now.
But just as terror is about to knock something shifts, perhaps enough consciousness raised that a sinister energy is alchemize, and terror turns and retreats from the door. My Journey to Report on the Horrors and Hope in the Congo (Part VI)
In the early nineteenth century, there were not enough priests to minister to the burgeoning Catholic community in the United States.
A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts. Home | Mail Online
When she said she was 'debilitated' at havin 'to give us ham and toast that was funny enough, but what come afterwards was funnier. Thankful's Inheritance
Funnily enough, I was almost caught in a compromising situation earlier by one of the engineers.
Moss allegedly ordered the pair to look for police or traffic officers to attack and "dispossess" them of their service firearms, because the PAC did not have enough weapons to wage its armed struggle. ANC Daily News Briefing
So my advice is this: Keep the eight-glasses-a-day rule--not as a do-or-die goal, but simply as a tool to remind you to drink enough water to make up for any shortfall from your food.
As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task. Peggy
First, there are not enough mental health services to meet the needs of patients.

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