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adverb

sufficiently

CEFR B2

to a sufficient degree

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sufficiently, each labelled with its topic.

  • Knead until the dough is sufficiently elastic that a stretched piece lets light through without tearing at the middle.

    Cooking

  • He was not sufficiently recovered to sprint, so the coach kept him on the stationary bike another week.

    Fitness

  • The wound had healed sufficiently for the surgeon to remove the drain, though the dressing stayed on four more days.

    Medicine

  • The bank judged the borrower sufficiently secure once her savings covered six months of payments on the loan.

    Finance

  • The forward was sufficiently recovered to play twenty minutes, so the coach kept him out of the fourth quarter anyway.

    Basketball

  • The battery must cool sufficiently before the charger will restart, which explains the pause after a long drive.

    Technology

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