How to Use sufficiency in a Sentence

sufficiency

noun

• But the first step on the path to financial self-sufficiency is finding a job.
  — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• The theory was that TANF would serve the truly needy, while the lazy would progress into lives of self-sufficiency.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Their goal is to help struggling women turn their lives around and achieve self-sufficiency.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• This time, Maria, aspiring to self-sufficiency, wants to be the leaver, to defy the fate of confinement.
  — Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020
• The road to self-sufficiency for the transit agency remains long.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• This provoked the chief minister to call for building food self-sufficiency in the state.
  — S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 3 May 2020
• She was adopted at a young age and compelled to self-sufficiency very early in life.
  — Austin R. Ramsey, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
• The goal is to move them quickly toward self-sufficiency.
  — USA Today, 28 Dec. 2021
• But with 300 miles of beaches, Sierra Leone can claim self-sufficiency in sand.
  — Peter Yeung, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• The area’s high cost of living, fueled in large part by the current tech boom, acts as an obstacle to self-sufficiency.
  — Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• At the same time, Cry Macho casts doubt on the value of masculine self-sufficiency.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• The grant will be used to improve the survivors’ safety, access to justice and self sufficiency.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
• One of the principal hurdles for the plaintiffs here will be, as Wright points out, the sufficiency of the evidence alleged.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 July 2017
• Our dreams of self-sufficiency were further fed by the craze for turning kitchen scraps into crops — even if only on a very small scale.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• In those years between the cuddly attachment of childhood and the self-sufficiency of adulthood, teens can cause quite a headache for those who love them.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• But the question of whether the goal of self-sufficiency has been achieved is seemingly subjective.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
• The value of even the illusions of privacy and self-sufficiency is too high.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
• The goal is for these families to reach self-sufficiency within 12 months.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2021
• As a result, the government continued to trumpet the sufficiency of the food supply even as the famine began to take hold.
  — Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
• That's a quick path to self-sufficiency and the ability to provide for your family.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
• New requirements to encourage work and self-sufficiency are part of the plan.
  — Jennifer C. Kerr, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• And as Mercury enters the earthy self-sufficiency of Capricorn, it’s high time to look at which parts of our quest are truly aligned, and what must be purged in order to ride on.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2014
• But at the time, there also emerged a group of scholars who did question the sufficiency of liberalism.
  — Christopher Beem, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020
• Heating with wood is a study in stubborn self-sufficiency.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• The purchase is in line with the government’s push for energy self-sufficiency, López Obrador said.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 June 2021
• The push for self-sufficiency in case of a full shutdown promoted more people to plant a vegetable garden.
  — oregonlive, 19 June 2020
• Thomas' message is that of healing and self-sufficiency.
  — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 24 June 2017
• The self-sufficiency of that military base has long played a role in keeping Twentynine Palms sleepy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Her role here, like the other innkeepers, is to firmly push the guests toward taking concrete steps to self-sufficiency.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• The judge overseeing the case ordered each side to file briefs addressing the legal and evidentiary sufficiency of the jury findings.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025