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How to use satisfy in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Satisfy means to be enough (for). Example: “That brief explanation will never satisfy.”

Examples of satisfy by meaning

verbTo be enough (for).

  • That brief explanation will never satisfy.

verbTo meet the needs of, to fulfill the wishes or requirements of (someone).

  • The final rehearsal of the day seemed to satisfy the director.

verbTo provide what is wanted or required for (something).

  • Even three giant helpings of turkey and ham didn't satisfy her appetite.

verbTo pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.

  • to satisfy a creditor

verbTo answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.

  • to satisfy a claim or an execution

More sentences with satisfy

  • A strictly stationary and mixing process with finite expectation satisfies a Law of Large Numbers.From the entry mixing
  • Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.From the entry poutine
  • The small local library was not enough to satisfy our bibliomaniacal thirst.From the entry bibliomaniacal
  • This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.From the entry business
  • With tact and management it would be possible to partially satisfy creditors, and keep up appearances for six months more.From the entry keep up appearances
  • Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.From the entry demanding
  • A Boolean algebra is a De Morgan algebra which also satisfies the law of excluded middle and the law of noncontradiction.From the entry Boolean algebra
  • Paul would never be free of the sorrow of his first love, try as he might to satisfy himself with light skirt after light skirt.From the entry light skirt
  • Faced with metallic bubble-pink leather and designed with an elegant arch, they’ll satisfy any material girl.2022 June 8, Gennady Oreshkin, “Some Like It Hot”, in Prestige Hong Kong. From the entry bubble-pink
  • It still rose, but not enough to satisfy the deal it had made with DfT.2019 October 23, Philip Haigh, “Railway reorganisation offers no guarantee of a panacea”, in Rail, page 57. From the entry ridership
  • In this way, customers satisfy their need for an ‘Instagrammable’ moment.2019, Sherazade Aissa, “Digitalization in the Restaurant Sector – The French Exception?”, in Jessica Lichy, editor, The Driving Trends of…. From the entry Instagramable
  • As a judge, I cannot stultify myself to satisfy my personal feelings and inclinations.2017, “Why Me?” (27:33 from the start), in The Deuce, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Judge Aaron Bressler (Stephen Singer), HBO. From the entry stultify
  • We obtain as a corollary that plactic monoids for any semisimple Lie algebra satisfy homological finiteness properties..2015, Nohra Hage, “Finite convergent presentations of plactic monoids for semisimple lie algebras”, in arXiv. From the entry plactic
  • You should satisfy yourself that both of these ratios are proportional to time.2015, William M. White, Isotope Geochemistry, Wiley, page 78. From the entry concordia diagram
  • It allows each customer to find the price and benefits (value) balance that best satisfies their needs.2015 May 20, Christopher Lovelock, Paul Patterson, Services Marketing, Pearson Australia, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry self-segment
  • But that is far from enough to satisfy the thousands who wait in line for days.2015 October 15, Donatella Lorch, “Snaking Lines Grow as Nepal Confronts Fuel Shortage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Birgunj
  • It not only recharges the qi but also satisfies the appetite as it is very delicious.2014, Jin Perez, Susanna Ng Ting, “Chicken in Chinese Wine and Black Sesame Oil - Chinese-style Black Chicken Adobo”, in Angelo Comsti…. From the entry guama
  • However, there’s a trick called caching that will satisfy even the most performance-obsessed WordPresser.2013, Matthew MacDonald, WordPress: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 306. From the entry WordPresser
  • Saying that's just the way it happens to be, doesn't satisfy many scientists.2012, W. Brewster Willcox, “A Two-horse Horserace”, in The Power of Paradox, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, part II (The Search for…. From the entry knock into a cocked hat
  • Jobs argued that it had enough security to satisfy all but the most paranoid IT manager.2009, Alastair Sweeny, BlackBerry Planet. From the entry superphone
  • Thus, the features of the Guliya Ice Cap satisfy the assumptions made for our calculations.2006, L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson, editors, Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude…. From the entry Guliya
  • Select the SLCM that will best satisfy the project attributes and constraints.2002, Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda Shafer, Quality Software Project Management, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry SLCM
  • Every object of a given class must satisfy the class's invariant.2000, Meilir Page-Jones, Fundamentals of Object-oriented Design in UML, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 272. From the entry class invariant
  • Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement. From the entry defund
  • Note that all correctly rounding arithmetics satisfy property A1, as do those with properly truncating addition.1992, Douglas M. Priest, On Properties of Floating Point Arithmetics, University of California, Berkeley, page 17. From the entry arithmetic
  • Language is too closely tied to culture, and a transverbalized liturgy eventually fails to satisfy.1988, Aylward Shorter, Toward a Theology of Inculturation, page 23. From the entry transverbalize
  • Its emissivity and its metallicity must satisfy to criteria of evolution.1987, Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange, Bruno Guiderdoni, “Spectrophotometric Evolution of Distant Galaxies”, in J. Bergeron, D. Kunth, B.…. From the entry primevality
  • There simply was not enough grain in each elevator to satisfy the known claims against the grain.1983, US Congress, Grain Elevator Bankruptcy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134. From the entry against the grain
  • And when you spend big, you should get clothing that satisfies in a big way.1983, Leonard McGill, Stylewise: a man's guide to looking good for less, page 122. From the entry investment dressing
  • It will satisfy even a chocolatoholic — and all with 8 tablespoons of cocoa.1974 June 19, “Dishes of Note: Both ‘Best’ and ‘Easiest’ Cake Tops Chocolate with Chocolate”, in Wednesday Evening Twin City Sentinel…. From the entry chocolatoholic
  • The chocolate flavor of the Vandermint should satisfy even the most fanatic chocomaniacs in your party.1969 May, Thomas Mario, “Captivatingly Clear”, in Playboy, page 248. From the entry chocomaniac
  • Functions which do not satisfy any algebraic differential equation are called hypertranscendent.1956, The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society, Volumes 20-22, Indian Mathematical Society, page 207. From the entry hypertranscendent
  • He is of sympathy, a tremendosity, a richness, a vagueness, that quite satisfies me.”1903, James Henry, “The Idealists”, in The Mortarboard, […] [T]he Junior Class of Barnard College, books II–III, pages 86–87. From the entry tremendosity
  • But he did anyway, to satisfy his unquenchable ego.2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unquenchable
  • Alcohol alone is not enough to satisfy our debaucherous ways!2024, Joshua Wright, Slack Wyrm #1306. From the entry debaucherous

Meaning of satisfy

  1. verb To be enough (for).
  2. verb To meet the needs of, to fulfill the wishes or requirements of (someone).
  3. verb To provide what is wanted or required for (something).

Full definition of satisfy

Questions about satisfy in a sentence

How do you use satisfy in a sentence?
Satisfy is used as a verb. For example: “That brief explanation will never satisfy.”
What is a short sentence with satisfy?
“to satisfy a creditor”
What does satisfy mean?
Satisfy means to be enough (for).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: satisfy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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