Thesaurus / sufficing

sufficing

How to use sufficing in a sentence

At any time, a vessel becalmed is considered a very sufficing reason for swearing by those who are on board of her.

NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT

It was Emma's seventh child, but the ever sufficing mother-love looked from her eyes undimmed, limitless as the air.

The bell was a rather clumsy, yet sufficing device that young Dawson had attached to the wireless telegraph apparatus.

Perhaps a few only of the males, as in our cattle, were suffered to become adult, one male sufficing for many females.

But the book is another sufficing proof that the male sex has no monopoly of humour.

To Thoreau the Earth was a kind and gracious sister; to Jefferies an all-sufficing mistress.

But in Richard she was shy of the bleak isolation, the self-sufficing, the hard, chill core.

It will, therefore, not be necessary to go much into detail, a brief summary sufficing.

They were then finishing the labeling of the papers for Paris circulation; 20,000 copies scarcely sufficing for the supply.

The manor was almost entirely self-sufficing; of necessity, for towns were few and distant, and the roads to them bad.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985