suffice

Example Sentences

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The streets of America did not need to be paved with gold; it would suffice to be less mired in muck.

From The Wall Street Journal

Solomon’s response didn’t suffice for Wells Fargo’s Mike Mayo, who followed up by needling the investment bank.

From The Wall Street Journal

Conféderation Rurale and Conféderation Paysanne say the policy is being brutally applied, and is in any case unnecessary because a combination of selective culling and vaccination would suffice.

From BBC

But the plan would require Ukraine to cap its armed forces at an arbitrary level that wouldn’t suffice to deter or resist future aggression.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was nothing to sit upon in the shed but upended dough buckets, but they sufficed.

From Literature