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Example sentences for "insure"

Lexicographically close words:
insupportably; insuppressible; insurable; insurance; insurances; insured; insurer; insurers; insures; insurgence
  1. Let us but vindicate their existence on any part of this continent, and that alone will insure their final prevalence on the continent as a whole.

  2. Windows, oblong openings, are left in the sides of the limb, to insure a good supply of air to the extremity of the mutilated limb.

  3. By so doing he would only insure a mutinous awakening, with mind and body sluggish and unrested.

  4. The welfare and happiness of too many human beings were at stake to permit him to think of personal consequences, and he was ready and dared to encounter any risk for himself, so that he could insure the safety of those fleeing from bondage.

  5. At this exciting juncture of affairs, Mr. McKim, who had been engineering this important undertaking, deemed it expedient to change the programme slightly in one particular at least to insure greater safety.

  6. The articles, original and selected, are chosen and prepared with great care, and the pious and eminent writers who have contributed to this volume insure its excellence.

  7. It has, my son, since you were given me, been the great aim of my life to educate you in such habits and principles as I believe will insure your present and final felicity.

  8. Where the device of adoption was not resorted to, therefore, in case of barrenness or the birth exclusively of female children, nothing was more natural than that polygyny should be resorted to in order to insure the family succession.

  9. If it could be shown that a just distribution of material goods would insure the future of the race and of civilization, then, of course, the socialist plea would be made good.

  10. Everything in the social environment must be carefully looked after in order to insure the best development of the individual and to prevent his environment from being in any way a drawback to him.

  11. Finally, training in the social sciences will insure the development of true moral freedom in our social life, for these sciences involve a searching but impersonal criticism of social institutions and public policies.

  12. I say I will insure it to you under my hand, this minute, if you will do what I want of you.

  13. The dauphin on his side was earnestly solicited by the most considerable burgesses of Paris to get this interview over in order to insure the execution of the treaty of peace which had been sworn to with the Duke of Burgundy.

  14. Yet the people were ready to assume this great burden to insure an unending supply of pure water, for they realized that without it their city could not continue to grow.

  15. The United States owns a large amount of forest but not nearly enough to insure a supply of wood for the future.

  16. In this way they could insure an abundant supply of fruit, nuts and timber for the future, could increase the value of their property, and provide a steady income besides.

  17. To insure the purity of water supply from a stream, no factory waste, city sewage or country refuse should be allowed to enter any part of the stream.

  18. It was necessary to destroy some of them to insure man's safety, and others were needed for his use.

  19. The space given for brood rearing is often too small, and frequently no care is given to secure the proper amount of brood in time to insure a population ready for each harvest.

  20. Simple and convenient hives, employing the Langstroth principle, and with stories and frames interchangeable and so constructed as to reduce propolization to a minimum and to insure straight combs, will much facilitate the avoidance of stings.

  21. The returning bees will enter the latter and the queen may be allowed to go in with them, the cage being placed with its open end directly against the entrance to insure this.

  22. His dark hair had in youth been luxuriant in thickness and curl; it was now clipped short, and had become bare at the temples, but it still retained the lustre of its colour and the crispness of its ringlets.

  23. She was intoxicated by the mere joy of inventing ideal images.

  24. Louvier, though gathering to his own salons authors and artists, very rarely favoured their rooms with his presence; he did not adorn Isaura's party that evening.

  25. The reader will have learned, through the conversation recorded in a former chapter between De Mauleon and Enguerrand de Vandemar, that the austere Seigneur Breton had become a fast viveur of Paris.

  26. Possibly not now; but you did know her well enough, when we two parted, to be a candidate for her hand.

  27. It was not entered in the books of the hotel, for she had not lodged there; nor did it appear that she had allowed time for formal examination by the civil authorities.

  28. He thought that in witnessing the applauses bestowed on actors, and sharing in the fascination in which theatrical illusion holds an audience, my old passion for the stage, and with it the longing for an artiste's fame, would revive.

  29. It expedited the binding of grain, tended to insure accuracy and efficiency, and stimulated the agricultural classes to a study of mechanism, and therefore of physics and the arts depending on it.

  30. An invention seems to be needed that will insure adequate knowledge in high officials in governments.

  31. Now nothing that is wholly artificial can reasonably be expected to be permanent, unless adequate and timely measures are taken to insure it.

  32. But to insure absolute success they would charter Morse's yacht and steam right up into the primitive harbor.

  33. You ain't tryin' to insure anybody in town, are you?

  34. This is made of card-board by cutting out an exact copy of the profile, leaving at the bottom sufficient width to insure rigidity when the template is held upright on the table or bat.

  35. In printing upon crash it is necessary to press the block very firmly upon the material; and frequently, to insure getting a sufficiently strong impression, it is advisable to tap the block lightly with a hammer or wooden mallet.

  36. To insure a good fit in either case care should be exercised not to cut outside the knife lines.

  37. To insure thorough adhesion of the paste to the concrete, the cutting should be well moistened with a wet brush.

  38. And if we were now at the bar of some stall-fed justice, the inquiry would insure the victory to the maker of it, to the manifest delight of the constables and suitors of his court.

  39. This form of foreshaft is very well adapted to insure the unshipping of the toggle-head, but lacks the special advantage of the loose-shaft, namely, that under a violent lateral strain it unships without breaking.

  40. A whaling umiak always carries a number of amulets to insure success.

  41. If it be fastened on the right shoulder it will insure success in taking ducks with the "bolas.

  42. There would, however, be no reason for using so valuable an object for such a purpose, when a common beach pebble would do just as well, unless it was intended as a charm to insure success in fishing.

  43. It would be a proof of his conscientious attention to duty, and would insure praise for him, whichever way the case turned out.

  44. He was the calmest and gentlest of human beings, and to his calmness was attributable the fact that he lived till 1858, although when he was twenty the offices refused to insure his life for a year on any terms.

  45. To Fitzjames it seemed to be a proof only of cold-blooded malignity which would insure the execution of the sentence.

  46. The canal steamboats are at last so far perfected as to insure a handsome profit in running them, and a large number will soon be at work on the canal.

  47. This will insure Leadville the control of the business of the Gunnison country, whose mineral developments are spoken of in the highest terms.

  48. Amongst the many candidates for an employment so certain to insure the fortune of its possessor, Major Barrington, then a brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, was chosen.

  49. Go back, then, to your patient, sir; assure him that he is at an inn, and that he has the right to be all that his purse and his want of manners can insure him.

  50. I have accomplished miracles to insure your escape from prison.

  51. But the Marquis had taken other measures to insure his son's success.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arm; ascertain; assure; attest; back; bless; bond; certify; champion; cinch; clinch; cloak; confirm; copyright; cover; cushion; decide; defend; determine; endorse; ensure; establish; fence; fend; fix; guarantee; guaranty; guard; harbor; haven; indorse; insure; keep; nestle; patent; police; promise; protect; reassure; register; safeguard; satisfy; screen; secure; see; settle; shelter; shield; shroud; sign; sponsor; underwrite; warrant


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    insure domestic; insure success