Examples of suffice in a Sentence

She's also decided that she can't countenance her mother, who gives Jane cash but demands that her daughter save every receipt or package to prove that she didn't spend the money on drugs. Suffice it to say, their short-lived truce is over. — Alec Klein, A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools, 2007 Thirteen years later, I still don't know exactly what to make of this letter. It goes without saying that a simple thank-you note, especially nearly a year late, would have sufficed. — Scott Turow, Atlantic, December 2005 But what of the meteoroids that come from other large objects in the solar system? To escape from Venus or the Earth, matter must be ejected at a velocity of at least seven miles a second; on Mars, three miles a second will suffice. — Donald Goldsmith, Natural History, September 2003 No, you don't need to write a letter. A phone call will suffice. Her example alone should suffice to show that anything is possible.

Recent Examples on the Web Those facts already suffice to recommend serious course correction. — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 1 May 2022 The business impact of course pales in comparison to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, but suffice to say the global fallout will be with us for some time. — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2022 For now, phone calls and texts will have to suffice. — Cathryn J. Prince, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2022 Mayor de Blasio had initially been reluctant to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory, hoping that encouragement and convenience would suffice. — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022 Sunday scaries or not, falling asleep can be an arduous task that no amount of counting sheep will suffice. — Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 11 Mar. 2022 The film is filled with many disturbing twists, but suffice to say that Keoghan is a haunting villain, full of blank expressions and pitiless stares in even the most distressing moments. — William Earl, Variety, 5 Mar. 2022 Shocking images and words, Channell-Justice notes, make an impact when polite language doesn’t suffice. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 The invasion of Ukraine has shattered the illusion that this approach would suffice. — William A. Galston, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for suffice

Middle English suffisen, sufficen "to be adequate, be capable," borrowed from Anglo-French suffis-, stem of suffire "to be sufficient for, be adequate," Latinization of Old French sofire, soufire, going back to Vulgar Latin *suffīcere, alteration (with ī from verbs such as dīcere "to say") of Latin sufficere "to provide, appoint, have enough strength or capacity, be adequate," from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + facere "to make, do" — more at fact

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