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Example sentences for "not sure"

  • I'm not sure but I'd like to crush Marie," he alleged.

  • After all," he declared, "I am not sure whether I chose the right profession.

  • I am not sure, Job Rowsell," the latter declared, "that I like your money nor the way you earn it.

  • I am not sure that I shall succeed, but it is the only thing that will save me from insolvency, and I am trying.

  • Paul, do find Evie, and tell her lunch for six, but I'm not sure whether we shall all be downstairs for it.

  • If there's any objection, I'm not sure that I shan't make it the opportunity for setting up my standard of revolt.

  • I am not sure that I recognise any of the ordinary dogmas; I think I have progressed beyond them.

  • And the truth is, I'm not sure that I wish to.

  • And I'm not sure that I should always have got on as easily,' the speaker continued.

  • I'm not sure that we shall not have to consider your expulsion from the Union.

  • I'm not sure as it ain't breakin' the law.

  • I'm not sure that I know what that means,' replied Adela, after thinking for a moment with downcast eyes.

  • I, as you know, am not altogether a man of formulas, but I am not sure that my behaviour would greatly differ from hers in her position; I mean as regards yourself.

  • I am not sure that it is dark enough yet, but listen!

  • I am not sure, my dear girl, but that it may be wise and specious to preserve that outward indifference.

  • I am not sure that I understand you, George," replies the ironmaster.

  • I am not sure but it belongs to the great literature in that fidelity to life which I have spoken of, and which the author brought himself to practise with such difficulty, and under so much stress from his editor.

  • I am not sure that he was a persona grata to every one in my own, for Keeler was framed rather for men's liking, and Mr. Aldrich and I had our subtleties as to whether his mind about women was not so Chinese as somewhat to infect his manner.

  • I have since heard this more than once urged as a signal advantage of New York for the aesthetic inhabitant, but I am not sure, yet, that it is so.

  • I'm not sure that I've 'got on to him' altogether yet.

  • It must, indeed," she said, "though I am not sure I quite understand what a grouch is.

  • I'm not sure I can get him to do it; but he's been a heap better lately, and perhaps I can.

  • Not sure, but he thinks it not wise to run the risk.

  • I'm not sure," said Ethel; "I think looking for fame is like wanting a reward at once.

  • I am not sure, however, that it is right to call it a trouble, though it is a trial.

  • I am not sure," said Norman; "he does pretty well on the whole.

  • I am not sure," he said reflectively, as he lit a cigarette, "that Ena will find that young woman so easy to deal with as she imagines!

  • But I am not sure," she said, looking at him a little doubtfully, "that you are a villager.

  • I'm not sure," the Princess said reflectively, "whether it is quite wise to hurry Jeanne so much.

  • I am not sure," he answered, "that I feel inclined to do that.

  • I'm not sure that I don't need a guardian.

  • I am not sure but I should put him beside Hamlet, and on the name level, for the merit of his artistic completeness, and at one time I much preferred him, or at least his humor.

  • I meant it to be acted by my schoolmates, but I am not sure that I ever made it known to them.

  • I am not sure I should be happy enough to make him happy.

  • And I am not sure if I should be happy in Cambridge.

  • I'm not sure if they quite followed my German.

  • I am not sure, sir, but I believe we have received a warning against notes issued by this bank only this morning.

  • I have spoken of my father's old friendship for the Jenkyns family; indeed, I am not sure if there was not some distant relationship.

  • I am not sure if Martha and Jem looked more radiant in the afternoon, when they, too, made their first appearance.

  • Certainly a member of Parliament is not sure that he shall not be torn in pieces by a mob, or guillotined by a revolutionary tribunal for his opposition to reform.

  • But he is NOT sure; and never can be, till he is dead.

  • I am not sure that I understand you, Sir William," Lashmar replied coldly.

  • I'm not sure that I couldn't debate the point still, but at present I'll be satisfied with your approval of my scheme.

  • She insists on being treated by everyone (I suppose, her doctor excepted, but I am not sure) as if she were in perfect health.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another piece; geologically speaking; miserable sinners; not all; not alone; not for; not going; not good; not guilty; not here; not knowing; not made; not mine; not necessary; not remember; not speak; not the; not true; not uncommon; not very; nothing against; nothing else; nothing more; notwithstanding the; other bird; will place