The explanation sufficed, that seemed to mean; she accepted it, she understood it.

The chapter ends with another hint that his new "paradigmatic explanation of technology" (12) might suffice to supplant earlier rival ones.

Now tell me if an explanation of a Turner painting would suffice?

He knew now that Greug was right; no explanations would suffice where this girl and her vindictive associates were concerned.

If there is, then the simplest explanation will have sufficed and there will be no need or justification for introducing additional influences.

He has been outspoken, consistent and effective, but that explanation does not suffice.

A New Yorker for whom the simple explanation never suffices has been wondering why she's been so down lately.

No explanation will suffice the criminal, once he makes one mistake.

But these individual explanations do not suffice.

If the East-West romance were still in full bloom, these explanations might have sufficed.