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Example sentences for "certainty"

Lexicographically close words:
certaines; certainly; certains; certaintie; certainties; certam; certamen; certamine; certane; certare
  1. At length my care, attempts, and efforts were successful, and at the periods the symptoms usually returned I had the happiness not to observe them, and believed in the certainty of a final cure.

  2. The regret which we all experienced from the loss was softened by the certainty that my dear Anna might again become a mother, under more favourable circumstances.

  3. It is, I confess, a solemn moment, when one stands between life and death by the more or less certainty of a gun, or the greater or less steadiness of the arm that holds it.

  4. Of a certainty she would have pitied any one in such distress and grief, even had the cause thereof come less near to herself.

  5. The certainty gave him the real satisfaction of legitimate pride.

  6. The blow had struck home with deadly certainty and the wound was such as man cannot heal, neither woman.

  7. There was in the movement all the certainty of conquest and yet all the tenderness of love.

  8. Marzio was conscious to certainty that Paolo would in some way or other be at his elbow ever afterwards, just as he seemed to feel his presence this afternoon in the workshop.

  9. It is perhaps impossible, as we have said already, to decide with certainty which feast is meant, but we shall follow the more common opinion and hold that there is question of the Pasch.

  10. What I had denied, or at least what I had admitted only as an illusion, with reservations and flashes of incredulity, the crowd accepted with a certainty against which it would have been madness to rebel.

  11. The temporary success of the opposition in the spring of 1780 showed the king that he could no longer reckon with certainty on the support of the house of commons.

  12. Until very recently, however, very little or nothing was known with any certainty about the temperature of the sea at depths below the surface.

  13. Or dost thou know for a certainty that they are not under the power of some other corruption, as thou thinkest thyself under the power of that corruption whereof thou complainest?

  14. Now faith acting thus on Christ, as a public person, dying and overcoming death and sin, the believer may not only infer the certainty of victory, knowing that our old man is crucified with Christ, Rom.

  15. In Oklahoma (1907) it was held that the making of contracts for the payment of money, the certainty in value of return being dependent on chance, was a lottery (Fidelity Fund Co.

  16. The statements cannot be perfectly reconciled; but we may say with certainty that Lucretius was born between 98 and 95 B.

  17. With a start we were back again in the dreadful reality that the boys were not yet found, and that the longer the time that elapsed before they were found, the greater the certainty that they must pay the penalty of a dangerous illness.

  18. The first thing I do in this new certainty is to write to you, dear Magnhild.

  19. We have many safe ways of applying nitrogen through the medium of various catch crops of pulse or beans, with the certainty that we can never overload the soil with more than the adjacent tree roots can take up and thoroughly assimilate.

  20. Ewart is preparing his money, and I have a certainty of my part.

  21. But the reluctance with which an author yields to the sad certainty of being unread, is apparent in the eagerness with which Halhed avails himself of every encouragement for a rally of his hopes.

  22. The certainty of success is a source of happiness to which men do not confess, and all the charm of certain women lies in this.

  23. A little face looking up with a certainty of welcome into hers brings again that wonderful softness into Hermia's eyes.

  24. Just before luncheon Madam O'Connor brought Monica home in triumph with her from Moyne, to find Desmond, handsome and happy, on her doorstep, waiting with calm certainty an invitation to that meal.

  25. There is so little certainty connected with you in my mind that half my days are consumed by doubts that render me miserable!

  26. We may weigh the arguments for and against a certain position, and we may think that the probability lies in a certain direction, but to decide finally and with certainty by mere cold logical reasoning is impossible.

  27. But now he has left the realm of certainty for that of uncertainty.

  28. He believes that we can attain certainty through action of much that cannot be justified on rational grounds.

  29. He condemns those who say that sensation is swept away by the Academy; nothing is swept away but its necessary certainty (103).

  30. Ut inter rectum et pravum: the sceptic would no more allow the absolute certainty of this distinction than of the other.

  31. Those then who deny that any certainty can be attained through the senses, throw the whole of life into confusion (31).

  32. Cicero is arguing as in 128 against the absurdity of attaching one and the same degree of certainty to the simplest and the most complex truths, and tries to condemn the Stoic sapiens out of his own mouth, cf.

  33. And Klaus Heinrich stood smiling, under his theatrical tent, with a feeling of having exhausted his store of knowledge, happy in the certainty that nobody dare question him further.

  34. But we can say with comparative certainty that in our case .

  35. VII IN the charming place in which he found himself there were so many sympathetic faces that he felt more than ever convinced of the certainty of making himself heard.

  36. I can't say whether this was due to an immediate sense of the uncanny nature of the apparition--to the certainty that if I did jump out of bed I should hurl myself on nothing--or merely to the benumbing effect of the eyes themselves.

  37. This criterion can rarely be of much importance, because the fragments involved in granite are usually so much altered that they can not be referred with certainty to the rocks whence they were derived.

  38. They liked that place so well that they left it very soon, and went back to their old places of resort, preferring a chance of life to the certainty of starvation.

  39. In the one case there was the certainty of death, in the other a chance of life.

  40. She had entertained no suspicions since that instant--only the certainty that she was the object of Monsieur d'Antin's desires.

  41. I was very certain that you were being deceived, and it was this certainty which made me so anxious to see you personally, before any disturbance should break out.

  42. As they neared the birds, Cuchullain sent missiles at them from his sling with such incredible rapidity and certainty of aim that not one of the flock escaped.

  43. At last, I received the proof that my presentiments had not deceived me, and I was rewarded for all my efforts on the day when I acquired the certainty that the Opera ghost was more than a mere shade.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certainty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.