How To Use Suffice In A Sentence
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A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made.
Les Miserables
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It will be remembered that this short period suffices to give only a nucleal point in the matter of writings.
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work
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Suffice it to say, different minerals weather and grow at different rates within higher organisms, just as they do in the ambient environment.
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Certainly this suffices to show superabundantly by how many roads Modernism leads to the annihilation of all religion.
An anniversary note
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Suffice to say that BECAUSE we can sue employers for injuries and harassment at work, they're not in a position to take wanton liberties with the employees who generate their profits.
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Suffice to say there are alot of newscorp newspapers round the world that wouldn't mind some digg automagic.
Archive 2006-10-01
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One example will suffice to illustrate the point.
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Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go.
Stupid question.
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One warning sufficed to stop her doing it.
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For a smaller investor, half a dozen may suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- Since calcium carbide is only useful as a means of preparing acetylene, it should be bought under a guarantee (1) that it contains less impurities than suffice to render the crude gas dangerous in respect of spontaneous inflammability, or objectionable in a manner to be explained later on, when consumed; and (2) that it is capable of evolving a fixed minimum quantity of acetylene when decomposed by water.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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Suffice to say that it doesn't for a moment deter me from living and working in London this coming year.
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Suffice it to say that after more than an hour of pumping the poor guy like a mostly-empty keg, by the time dessert was served, I had names.
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In particular, we shall look at the issue of whether objects must be individuated under the kind of sortal expressions that correspond to Aristotelian substance concepts, or whether a more generic notion, such as physical body, will suffice.
Substance
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A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice.
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Otherwise, a pair of aviator sunglasses and a headscarf should suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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A few more statistics will suffice to show the trends of the time.
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Sometimes a friendly smile or responsive nod will suffice.
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To be attributed the concept arcane, on this view, it suffices that S uses the expression ˜arcane™ by and large correctly, ˜in keeping with its content™ “ if she is committed to her community practice of using the corresponding expression
The Normativity of Meaning and Content
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That capture of a weakened Labour machine by the Left would not suffice to defeat the new Conservatism.
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Even if it's for the other Democrat nominee ... this idea that ANY republican candidate will suffice is getting ridiculous!
A cage match in Connecticut
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Suffice it to say I didn't do any sneaking and the house was not wired for networking.
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For Deimos, in its higher orbit, only 560 meters per second suffices to escape from the Mars system.
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Suffice it to say, I refused to get involved.
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Suffice it to say that Olive identifies intensely with Hester Prynne, the outcast heroine of "The Scarlet Letter.
'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White
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Suffice to say that beauty is not part of the package.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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Fortunately, the jib only gybed, while the fore-topsail slatted a bit against the mast; and all the other sails remaining full and drawing, a slight shift of the helm sufficed to put the ship on her proper course.
The Island Treasure
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I can't describe it explicitly without pictures, but suffice it to say that there are definite positions for fieldsmen in cricket.
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It suffices to say that Kevin is correct in his prejudgement, as I've said before, because the back flap summery is enough to reveal the entire story.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
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Suffice it to say that that rare enchanter Nabokov has a way of flitting in and out of my sights, as if ever-present, just there, behind my mind's eye.
Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift
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Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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While one could cite various and sundry works to exemplify his involvement with and commitment to a multicultural approach to a communicative music, suffice it to say that, in the long arch of history, time had passed him by.
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For the present it must suffice to observe that the evidences of an overruling dogmatic purpose are generally much more conspicuous in the third synoptist than in the first; and that the very loose manner in which this writer has handled his materials in the "Acts" is not calculated to inspire us with confidence in the historical accuracy of his gospel.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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If diagnoses could be rendered mechanical and predictable, consistent and replicable, that would suffice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The cultivable area of the country no longer suffices to sustain the population.
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More of this will be addressed in the section on divine causation, but for now suffice it to say that God's causal role in the actions of finite substances at the very minimum is to pre-establish the concomitance or conjunction between “causes” and “effects,” without which God's aim of producing universal and maximum harmony
Leibniz on Causation
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The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice.
Government by Twitter « BuzzMachine
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So, suffice it to say, in one way or another Hamilton's books are sufficiently diverting, which is something I need right now.
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Few words to the wise suffice.
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For the mind is so attuned to the reception of facial signals that almost any combination of two dots and a dash will suffice.
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They thought
that it sufficed for a prince
to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud
to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor
Winner Takes All
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If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice.
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The Highwayman's Case suffices as a colourful example.
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It may suffice for research purposes but as a valid doping result - no way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eighty chalders of coals, at four shillings and twopence a chalder, suffices throughout the whole year; and because coal will not burn without wood, says the household book, sixty-four loads of great wood are also allowed, at twelvepence a load. (p. 22.)
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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For most patients, therefore, 1 or 2 days of treatment suffice to abolish the panic attack and its short-term aftereffects; afterward, the drug can be abruptly discontinued.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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But suffice it here to offer a non-lawyer's view that a law that is almost never enforced is either unneeded or useless.
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Of course, almanacs for the elite cannot be prepared without numbers and geometry, but the architecture as a whole can be disclosed by much simpler arguments; grade school experience suffices.
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But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice to themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.
An Inland Voyage
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Suffice to say it was somewhere short of fresh run, but no one had the heart to tell the beaming youth it should go back.
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The author, then pursuing his comment upon Plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love.
Zanoni
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Where usually the power of suggestion would suffice, he delves into the reality of that violence and its consequences without censorship.
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After living in a village that doesn't even sell toilet paper since mid-June, suffice it to say homegirl is ready to splurge.
Im ALIVE
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A bag of crisps may have to suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I were to look through Starostin's eyes for a moment, I would assume that he was thinking that the following *u, being labial by nature, would suffice in labializing a depalatalized *n-.
The hidden binary behind the Japanese numeral system
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The return to the ship involves a _bloto_ across the bay, with many misgivings as to the seaworthy capacities of the clumsy craft, but four bamboo safety-poles, fastened by forked sticks to the sides of the hollowed log, suffice to steady it enough to avoid capsizal.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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Coals he could get from Hall, also occasional half-crowns; these sufficed to pay for his breakfast; a dinner he could generally "cadge," and if he failed to do so, he had long ago learnt to go without.
Mike Fletcher A Novel
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For, inasmuch as they have but little heat, the very motion of the lung, airlike and void, suffices by itself to cool them for
On the Parts of Animals
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Suffice to say, it has no inside track.
Times, Sunday Times
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A real-world example suffices to illustrate why I believe this is of vital importance today.
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Many other traditionary genealogies of chiefs might be given, but let the above suffice as a specimen of the rest.
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Suffice to say that he answered as an opening batsman rather than a neutral.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle.
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Suffice it, then, that he ruled in Noumaria five years; that he did what was requisite by begetting children in lawful matrimony, and what was expected of him by begetting some others otherwise; and that he stoutened daily, and by and by decided that the young Baroness von Altenburg -- not excepting even her lovely and multifarious precursors, -- was beyond doubt possessed of the brightest eyes in all history.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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Take it up where you will, and provided only sufficient time (the reading of a dozen stanzas ought to suffice to any one who has the necessary gifts of appreciation) be given to allow the soft dreamy versicoloured atmosphere to rise round the reader, the languid and yet never monotonous music to gain his ear, the mood of mixed imagination and heroism, adventure and morality, to impress itself on his mind, and the result is certain.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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In the northern hemisphere, or at any rate in the part occupied by British America and the north of the United States, this phenomenon is explained by the flat conformation of the territories bordering on the pole, and on which there is no intumescence of the soil to oppose any obstacle to the north winds; here, in Lincoln Island, this explanation would not suffice.
The Secret of the Island
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An oral disclaimer can suffice provided that it is bold and compelling enough to neutralise the effect of the odometer reading.
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One wife, however, does not suffice to fill the nest with eggs; and the stickleback is a firm believer in the advantages of large families.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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The effect of which supplication was that the temporall landes devoutely given, and disordinately spent by religious and other spirituall persons, should be seased into the Kyngs hands, sithence the same might suffice to maintayne to the honor of the King and defence of the realme fifteene Erles, fifteene C.
The Battaile of Agincourt
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Simple filtration will sometimes suffice to separate the required substance; in other cases dialysis will be necessary, in order that crystalloid substances may be separated from colloid bodies.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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The concept of Newtonian elastic collisions among molecules of a gas suffices to bind together in one theory the empirical laws of Boyle, Charles, and Graham.
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A bag of crisps may have to suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the question of refugees, suffice to say that the crisis was hardly helped by the bombing campaign itself.
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But it did not suffice them that they were herein indulged themselves, they must have the Gentile converts brought under the same obligations.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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For a purely linearly isotropic material, a single constant suffices to describe the sample elasticity.
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He observed no sort of moderation, such as befitted a private man, either in rewarding or in punishing; the recompense of his friends and guests was absolute power over cities, and irresponsible authority, and the only satisfaction of his wrath was the destruction of his enemy; banishment would not suffice.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Far be it from me to say that this was a bad exam, suffice to say it was an exam in which fast writers were rewarded, at the expense of those without bionic hands.
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I have my reasons for this of course but suffice it to say that his ignorance of certain intel community practices and internal history is underscored by his personal assertions contrary to the reality.
Pat rogers
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In such glorious surroundings, a slice of dry bread and a plank would have sufficed.
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That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler.
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This suffices for the Replies to the Objections: for the first two arguments refer to the first kind of cleanness; while the third refers to the perfect vision of God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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I won't go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster.
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A good old cuppa and chat will suffice.
The Sun
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Its taste was foul, but it was cheap, and just a beakerful or two sufficed to ravage the drinker's brain to zombiedom.
Hooting Yard
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The single glimpse she got sufficed to show the tears coursing down and the agonized scrunch of the features.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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His explanation was long and rather technical; suffice it to say that the very useful element 93 (vik-ro) is here again employed upon a substance called lor, which contains a considerable proportion of the element yor-san (105).
Pirates of Venus
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This may not suffice to account for the unhingement of his reason.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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I have no intention, to display (at this present) what the sacred law of amitie requireth, to be acted by one friend towards another, it shall suffice mee onely to informe you, that the league of friendship (farre stronger then the bond of bloud and kinred) confirmed us in our election of either at the first, to be true, loyall and perpetuall friends; whereas that of kinred, commeth onely by fortune or chance.
The Decameron
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Suffice to say that he answered as an opening batsman rather than a neutral.
Times, Sunday Times
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The use of the word bonkers should suffice as an explanation.
And the Best New Insult is...
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If you wished to say that something happened in Asia, it would not suffice to use the simple ablative, because that form would have the same pronunciation as the nominative or the accusative, Asia (m), but the preposition must be prefixed, _in Asia_.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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Of course the road hadn't been plowed yet, so as I approached it I picked up speed, hoping momentum and all-wheel drive would suffice.
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Suffice to say, China will tax both the group's idealism and its stamina.
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The first process -- the making of leather -- does not lie within the scope of this work; suffice it to say, that the hair or fur is first removed by lime, etc, and that after the skin is scraped it is treated variously with oak bark, valonia, sumach, divi-divi, etc.; it is a long and tedious process, and certainly does not lie within the province of
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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As I couldn't quite find the words to respond to that, I decided a mumble and a nod of the head would suffice.
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Q: hi i intend to purchase a shotgun this summer for the fall turkey season out here. the area is mostly brushy cover. i was wordering if a .410 is enough gun for the job. i know a 20guage will suffice i just wondered if a .410 will work thanks for your advice.
Hi i intend to purchase a shotgun this summer for the fall turkey season out here.
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The history of Monmouth would alone suffice to refute the Imputation of inconstancy which is so frequently thrown on the common people.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
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Words would not suffice to express the sensuality of the jewellery, be it cute little ear-rings, rings, pendants, cuff links or tie pins.
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Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled.
I.8
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It took a large number of lehua flowers to suffice for a wreath, and to bind them securely to the fillet that made them a garland was a work demanding not only artistic skill hut time and patience.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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The reasons are simply too vast to list, but one example should suffice.
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Suffice it to say that this has not been my experience of the last 15 years of medical practice.
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Suffice it to say, for some the festivities continued until sun-up.
Times, Sunday Times
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It suffices to cause the current of water which issues from the condenser of the frigorific machine to pass into the worm of the boiler.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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In other ways also, it became clear that coenogenesis could not suffice to explain deviations from the rule.
RECAPITULATION
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In pool four, one away win and the odd bonus point may suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't want to repeat my rather uncheerful comment on Yelli's blog from the other day Sorry, Y! but suffice to say I'm an exile of love, to use Snooker's words.
Distance doesn't really make the heart grow fonder
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Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle?
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I do not purchase a ball-pein hammer when the job requires a claw-hammer, as I would not buy an SUV when a smaller more economical vehicle would suffice.
Must the entity comprising car and driver try to avoid having a split personality?
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And I do think that the use of spanking when less aggressive measures will suffice is worrisome – if a talking-to or time-out would do the trick, why HIT?
A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother
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Suffice to say, I would not recommend this level of preparation when travelling with a fractious three-year-old and a grumpy husband.
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Using such friction plates to provide belays over crevasses or up short, steep sections is often too time-consuming when other methods will suffice, but the device is worth its weight during rescues.
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It will suffice to suppose that it is the consciousness itself that is the dialyser.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
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Given the usual investor apathy, 12 per cent may suffice to call off the marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only direct contact with the Holiest of items, The Host, The Cross, and Holy water, will suffice to repel her.
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Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
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Suffice it to say that the whisper eventually turned into a shout and the five-foot pile of dirt was reduced considerably.
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He hoped an outline deal between a new Equitable board and policyholders' groups might suffice to attract a buyer.
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Suffice to say, I didn't land the job but I had oodles of fun that day, including leaving a dish of individually-wrapped peppermint patties behind for everyone on the interview panel to enjoy!
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Suffice it to say they are excellently put across the footlights.
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A very brief recital of the relevant facts will suffice.
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In any case many rulers were for long reluctant to send ambassadors to foreign capitals if a lower-ranking representative would suffice.
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Suffice it to say it had something to do with spittoons, and I failed to enter.
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Suffice it to say that the whisper eventually turned into a shout and the five-foot pile of dirt was reduced considerably.
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Suffice that she was certainly an unwilling victim of circumstances.
Positive Parent Power
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Thus the simple chanting and praying of the early days could not have sufficed the new extended demands.
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I won't go into all the details. Suffice it to say that the whole event was a complete disaster.
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And she sat down beside the reapers; and he reached her parched corn and she ate and was sufficed and left.
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I'm not going to go into the whys and wherefores; suffice it to say that at the beginning of February I had a pretty major nervous breakdown, from which I am still recovering.
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The traditional public religion of the Roman State had sufficed for public purposes, but offered little to the individual.
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For a smaller investor, half a dozen may suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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England lack the confidence for the spectacular but the solid will often suffice in games as nervously mediocre as this one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Does not my word suffice? "contemptuously retorted the duke.
Under the Rose
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Suffice to say, they upset me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suffice it to say, my honest anger for the victims of Katrina used the term terror in its appropriate definition.
Larisa Alexandrovna: Andrew Sully and Moore Disorder
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These teams are proof that there's no use glitzing up an offense with passes when a good punch in the nose will suffice.
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“Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.”
Ratification
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For a single coat of arms the same hatchment might suffice for several generations but when a married couple's arms were impaled the hatchment could obviously only be used twice.
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An unrecorded or uncommunicated decision, even if made at the same time as the decision to refuse or grant conditional consent, would not suffice.
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She tried to smile warmly at him, but it turned more into a grimace, so she sufficed with a simple wave before walking on.
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It sufficed to invoke the emergency aid exception that it was reasonable to believe that Fisher had hurt himself (albeit nonfatally) and needed treatment that in his rage he was unable to provide, or that Fisher was about to hurt, or had already hurt, someone else.
JURIST - Paper Chase
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It is impossible to do justice to the scope of the book, but a few samples must suffice to whet the appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suffice to say it was a much more dangerous and miserable version of the above story (imagine seven-year-old crack addicts), but ultimately became an exercise in momentary transcendence.
Archive 2007-09-01
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A hypothetical example should suffice in illustrating how worrying a precedent this case may have set.
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Tell her that Venus would have of her beauty so much at least as may suffice for but one day's use, that beauty she possessed erewhile being foreworn and spoiled, through her tendance upon the sick-bed of her son; and be not slow in returning.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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* I hadn't spent a considerable amount of time around this team since the summer of 2007, when a certain surly left fielder was taking aim at the all-time home run record, and let's suffice it to say the clubhouse is very different now.
The surprising San Francisco Giants
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Suffice to say some people on this fair isle have no sense of humour.
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Space precludes a full definition here, but suffice it to say that recent statistics suggest that only half of such cases are admitted to hospital.
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Even a casual reading would suffice to demonstrate that Ross's account is wholly unreliable.
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Would not one word suffice to dispel their solicitude, and restore the lost one to their arms?
Wild Western Scenes
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A fair auction must suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too much need not be made of this, and the Roman calendar will suffice for all but the quite rarest occasions.
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Suffice it to say that either from ignorance of his merits or from jealousy by the Richmond authorities he was subordinated to those who were greatly his inferiors and denied the prominence to which his talents and abilities entitled him.
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But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.
The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson
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With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised.
NYT > Home Page
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Suffice it to say that the title of the video contained the word "fluffers".
Archive 2008-04-01
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Doubts then began to arise as to whether a single generalization on wages would suffice.
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Suffice to say, his language does not always reflect underlying reality.
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This primary function of pollen is a constraint that suffices to explain why apomictic grasses make pollen.
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Even a charge of conventional explosive in the vicinity of a small atom bomb would suffice.
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`I have no excuse... none that will suffice for my inattention.
FLOATING CITY
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But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the
The Coming Race
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The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
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These will suffice them in place of all other things, as they receive into themselves him who is the cause and the bestower of all blessing.
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At local foundries, print shops and cabinetmaking plants, he sees many jobs that require more than the on-the-job training that sufficed in years past, but less than a college degree.
Workers Of The World, Get Online
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It may suffice for research purposes but as a valid doping result - no way.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. Mahatma Gandhi
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Decide that thyself; whate'er thou givest will suffice.
Helen
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Suffice it for me to suggest that this attempted rehabilitation is surely doing the Speech Warrior ™ cause more harm than good.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Philosophical miserableness, stoicism, nihilism and spiritual (not pragmatic) scepticism all lead to the view that only the imposition of order will suffice No wonder this the life hating, paranoid Nixonite figure of Gordon Brown appeals to every cowardly pessimistic fibre of the nation.
The Pontiff Is In...
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Custuma nostra Burgi predicti si firme nostre predicte ad dictam summam pecunie sufficere non poterunt vel de nova Custuma nostra Burgorum nostrorum de Edenburg et de Hadington Si firme nostre et Custuma nostra ville Berwici aliquo casu contingente ad hoc forte non sufficiant.
The Monastery
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But the divine esence suffices the principle of knowing and acting on all things.
Archive 2005-08-01
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M. M.gendie has often injected into the veins of an hydrophobous dog as much as five grains of opium without producing any effect; while a single grain given to the healthy dog would suffice to send him almost to sleep.
The Dog
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I know that He wills it, I know that God is calling, and this suffices for me: Scio cui credidi et certus sum 2 Timothy 1:12; I know whom I have believed.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The reason is that merely arousing people to action once may not suffice to bring them out of lethargy.
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Suffice it to say, I was steadily engrossed and ultimately moved by a drama that is, in the end, more human than mutant.
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Certain exparte applications are required to be made by affidavit, in which case the affidavit itself suffices as the application.
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Manual stirring will often suffice but in many cases the coolant must be sprayed on to the tool.
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Suffice it to say that there's nothing haphazard about this collection.
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His hands could only get a fallen feather which would only suffice him for a short while.
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One illustration will suffice, provided by a friend who worked for many years in a cardiac unit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The answer is that the superaltars which are made by the bishops when a church is consecrated, suffice oratories in lieu of consecration or enthronement when they are sent to them, on the occasion of their dedication or opening.
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We won't reveal any more of the crazy, madcap story line suffice to say that in the best tradition of musicals they all live happily ever after, with a few surprises.
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He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture.
Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
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When the waitress first brought our dishes to our table (2 minutes after taking our orders), we couldn’t tell whose was whose; they were all covered with a mountainous pile of stringy, shredded, unmelted “cheese” (which seems to require no prename; even “yellow” wouldn’t suffice here as it was most certainly orange).
Orange You Glad I Ate Out in Cincinnati?
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Maybe a glass of water would suffice, also to cool my fevered brow.
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Let it suffice to call to mind how it proved possible to produce from certain thorium minerals lead with precisely the same chemical properties as ordinary lead, but with considerably higher atomic weight - that is to say, an isotope to lead.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921 - Presentation Speech
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A smile will often suffice, letting the batsman know you've got him in trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suffice it to say that the whisper eventually turned into a shout and the five-foot pile of dirt was reduced considerably.
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Let it suffice thee, kind juvenal, that thou hast the
The Monastery
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Suffice it to say there is nothing that besots a man more completely and lowers him more ignobly to the level of the brute.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Will 10 suffice for the trip?
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A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice.
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A sharp knife is not required to chop the story to pieces; a dull two-by-four will suffice.
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The rank of subdeacon suffices for election; the Abb ‚ Legendre relates in his memoirs as a contemporary incident that one of these young legislators, after an escapade, was soundly flogged by his perceptor who had accompanied him to Paris.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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It will suffice to recall the interdict imposed in 1200 on the Kingdom of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Suffice it to say that for most people food is the most important source of trace elements.
Miracle Micronutrients
