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Example sentences for "sure"

Lexicographically close words:
surcharged; surcingle; surcoat; surcoats; surd; surelie; surely; sureness; surer; surest
  1. The harlequin jumped out and bowed low to the ground, and Elena ran back into the house, for she was sure this comical looking fellow could never be Jose.

  2. At any rate, I am sure there are no finer appearing horses anywhere than these; but all of our horses are good to look at.

  3. Francisco felt sure these were the thieves, but Jose and Manuel took no notice whatever of them and Francisco feared his friends had not seen them.

  4. I feel sure they are too loyal to the estancia to harbour them if they knew who they were.

  5. Sure enough, in a park all their own, surrounding the Hindoo temple house, was a family of elephants and the baby elephant stood beside its mother, who was rubbing it affectionately with her long trunk.

  6. But he left you in my care and if I feel sure no harm can befall you, I see no reason why you should not go.

  7. Whether they are pulled apart or pushed apart by the spindle fibres is not certain, although it is apparently sure that these fibres from the centrosomes are engaged in the matter.

  8. It is sure to serve an excellent purpose in the direction of popular culture, and the love of natural science which it will develop in youthful minds can hardly fail to bear rich fruit.

  9. Now when this blood in its circulation flows through the active tissues--for instance, the muscles--it is again placed under conditions where osmosis is sure to occur.

  10. He was not sure what he meant, but the good fellow felt some violence done somewhere or other.

  11. So much delicacy that I want to be sure whether I'm married or not.

  12. It flashed across the mind of Bobby that in these plans of hers he may not always have been the principal, and he could not be sure .

  13. He was sure to like the place, already liked it.

  14. I'd be awful glad if I just could know for sure that the other woman was alive--if I couldn't know she's dead.

  15. Sure thing," said Lenny, with a manner of laying the entire railway system at her feet.

  16. Only the sixteen years keeping still made me think she was gone sure .

  17. Dwight darling, are you sure there's no danger?

  18. I did not feel sure of its identity, but I was told that travelling changed dogs very much.

  19. When he had become quite sure of himself and the equal of the most accomplished of four-footed dancers, he felt he could no longer hide his light under a bushel and that he must reveal the mystery of his accomplishments.

  20. She was fond of luxury, and we were always sure to find her curled up in the newest arm-chair or on the piece of stuff that best set off her swan’s-down coat.

  21. Then he would start to walk in front of me, preceding me like a page, and I am sure that if I had asked him to do so, he would have carried my candle.

  22. To Him they turn in their martyrdom with prayer and praise; to Him they address themselves with the heart and voice of sure conviction.

  23. There is a tone of confidence, bred of sure conviction, in one abundantly expressed, in the others latent, as to the ultimate triumph of right.

  24. Euphra sighed, paused, and then said: "But I am not sure of it.

  25. I am sure that accident on the railway last Sabbath, might have been a warning to them all.

  26. I was afraid you did not love me, Euphra; but now I am sure you do.

  27. Are you sure it is all to please Mr. Sutherland?

  28. Euphra glanced slightly at it without touching it, and said: "I am sure I could make nothing of it.

  29. I was sure nobody could be so stupid as I am.

  30. I am sure it is all that horrid man's doing.

  31. For, if he be good, are not we his children, and sure of having it, not merely feeling it, some day?

  32. I am sure the boy only wants thorough rousing, alternated with perfect repose.

  33. I am sure Mr. Arnold never could have meant that.

  34. I am sure the arrangements for steerage passengers on the "Ontario" would have gladdened the heart of Miss Charlotte O'Brien.

  35. Sure they would have perished with the cowld and the wet among the pelting of the snow and the sleet.

  36. I am sure there would be no agitation nor need of coercion if all the landladies and landlords were like this kind-hearted lady in practice.

  37. They were so very sure that everything was just as it should be, and nothing short of treason would induce any one to find fault.

  38. Oh, then, sure it's him that is the good landlord and the good man out and out.

  39. They did not exactly know what this let up meant, and I am sure I did not either.

  40. I am not quite sure whether the arch was destroyed or not; as far as my memory serves I think it was.

  41. The servant man who had ridden and cared for the white horse of Mayo recognized the horse and drew inconveniently near to the soldiers on parade to make sure whether it was "Rie Girraun" or not.

  42. Sure God above has an eye and an ear for it.

  43. The sides of the mountains, which are bog in many places, are scored with drains to dry up the bog holes and give the sheep a sure footing.

  44. Any one swearing falsely on the Mias Tighernain was sure to come to grief.

  45. I feel perfectly sure that if Sir Edwin Landseer, who (as your mother will tell you) was a great animal artist, had painted a White Egret, everybody would think it quite shocking if it were to be burnt or torn up.

  46. It makes them unhappy, and, besides, we may be sure that in some way or other we are just as ridiculous as they are, We may not know in what way.

  47. I have forgotten what his English name is--I am not quite sure if he has one.

  48. One is not really sure of a thing until one knows it, and I don't quite know that it happened like that, however much I may think it did.

  49. It is no use trying to find out whether he or the one I have just been telling you about is the most beautiful, because if somebody were to think that one were, somebody else would be sure to have a different opinion.

  50. But whenever the poor Red Bird of Paradise does come, he is sure to see the fruit, and then he is sure to fly to it, to eat it, and then he is sure to get caught in the string.

  51. Your mother may be surprised, perhaps, that it is the male Argus Pheasant, and not the hen bird, that does it, but I am sure she will not blame him on that account.

  52. Now you may be sure that if the poor Great Bird of Paradise is killed because he is so beautiful, so is the poor Red Bird of Paradise because he is.

  53. A place like that is called an aviary, and you may be quite sure that the beautiful Trogon or Quezal was one of the birds in King Montezuma's aviary, for it was more highly thought of than any other bird in the country.

  54. Even in the stained light she looked so beaming now, so frankly triumphant, he made sure that was it.

  55. I could guess whose it was by the crest and monogram, and I decided to make sure instead of giving chase.

  56. And who's to drive it back to town again, I'm sure I don't know!

  57. Are you sure it was a mistake, Mr. Scarth?

  58. But I am not sure you have been right," demurred the other.

  59. Late one night, in the second half of the month, the crime doctor, seated like a waxwork in a chair that never creaked, had just made sure that his man was asleep at last.

  60. Do you mind telling me why everybody is so sure that this man is the murderer?

  61. The inversion of the ruling passions is one of the sure symptoms of insanity.

  62. You're sure the address is in Professor Moseley's writing?

  63. I was sure to find the right one, if he or she saw my advertisement.

  64. Yes, and he'd be sure then that Robinson would go through all the mailed ads with a fine-tooth comb, after that.

  65. Be sure of one thing, Bailey is in no further danger.

  66. He's sure the man had fallen before the explosion?

  67. I reported it to the police, and they told me to be sure and not let the newspapers know.

  68. Then just about the time of your coming with the dog, your uncle undertook to obtain a swift and sure poison.

  69. Sylvia Graham felt, suddenly, that a hand, sure and firm, had been outstretched to guide her on a dark path.

  70. And be sure you say that it's a personal, marked copy.

  71. Shall we make a sure catch of two hired assassins who don't amount to much, or take a chance at the bigger game?

  72. I felt sure the advertisement would bring us help," she said wistfully.

  73. And she's hysterically sure that misfortune will follow us for ever if we're married without recovering the fool necklace.

  74. I have myself thought so often; but, remember carefully what I tell you, Monsieur Dumas: there will be no Vendean rising without England, and I am sure of England.

  75. I beg your pardon most profoundly, for I am sure I must have hurt you badly!

  76. The cause we were upholding was that of every obscure aspirant who hoped to become famous some day; and they would share a good deal of the influence acquired by us, in order to make their path more sure and brilliant.

  77. Sure enough, there was a regiment drawn up on the other side of the Seine on the Quai aux Fleurs!

  78. But, as I was not sure of myself and afraid of sleeping twenty-four hours, I begged I might be waked at seven--a promise that was given and kept religiously.

  79. The coin rang on the wooden floor of the room, and the innkeeper picked it up, lit a lamp, and, making sure that my money was good metal, decided to let me in.

  80. I therefore made my way to his mansion, where I felt sure I should not altogether be looked upon as an intruder.

  81. Well, then, monsieur, if you take up such an attitude as that, I must give you horses; but be very sure it is only because you compel me by force to do so.

  82. So sure that, because they tired me, I took them out and laid them by my side.

  83. Arsenal Library and ask for the librarian,--if I can do you a good turn be sure I will.

  84. A man who is sure of coming in to his father's inheritance need not be afraid of having an opinion of his own, whereas the man to be elected will hold whatever opinions are imposed on him.

  85. We re-loaded our guns, and got everything ready for a second attack, which I was sure they would make.

  86. It is in circumstances such as I am at present placed that we are sure to implore help and assistance from the hand of the Creator; but when we have received all we desire, how often we forget to give Him praise!

  87. He had been called upon to respond to this toast, which, as Sir John Morphett had told them, was a very comprehensive one--so comprehensive that he was sure that he would fail to do it justice.

  88. We feel sure we passed water this morning, as in one place we saw emu tracks and pigeons.

  89. No doubt we all shared Tommy's thankfulness, and I am sure his homely language very fairly expressed the spirit in which all my associates had shown their confidence in me during our long journey.

  90. He was gratified at having the opportunity of meeting them before they went down to the metropolis, and he was sure it was no small matter to Salisbury to have such a band remaining with them for a short time.

  91. I afterwards ascertained that they were not sure of their longitude, having no chronometer on board, and therefore wished to see some landmark.

  92. I am sure that my companions and myself feel very much the hearty reception you have given us on this occasion.

  93. I am not sure which is the main branch, but I intend following the one to the north, as it looks the largest and the natives say it has fresh water.

  94. Had not Jemmy been recognized, I feel sure we should have had bloodshed, and might probably have lost our lives.

  95. It struck me to-day that his eyeglass-chain was of last year's pattern, and I am not sure that he is sound on the subject of collars.

  96. Indeed, I am not sure that it is not you who need a holiday more than I.

  97. As I said to Mr. Brooks when I asked him to drop in with me, there's sure to be something to eat.

  98. Afterwards I'm sure you'd find them friendly enough.

  99. I am not sure that I care to interfere--that my presence might not be likely to cause her embarrassment," he said.

  100. I am sure of it, my dear," Lady Caroom answered.

  101. I am sure I am very glad that you have been so fortunate.

  102. If I wasn't sure that he'd do more harm than good, I wouldn't let him go.

  103. Are you sure that you're not cutting off your nose to spite your face, eh?

  104. It was such a delightful idea of yours, and I am sure all that you said was so simple and yet suggestive.

  105. Mary smiled inwardly, but said nothing, and Brooks was quite sure then that she was different.

  106. I'm not sure whether we shall open on Sundays or not.

  107. She is a queer girl, reticent in a way, although she seems such a chatterbox, and I am sure she thinks about him.

  108. Then as they grew up I built this 'ouse, and came up to live here amongst the people whom I reckoned my girls'd be sure to get to know.

  109. These provinces are seldom under the government of the same Waiwod, the Porte choosing to divide them, in order to be more sure of retaining them in subjection.

  110. Could I be sure that this word is in the Turkish original, I would boldly pronounce, that the Institutions were framed a century after the death of Timour, since the establishment of the Usbeks in Transoxiana.

  111. The method of persuasion, though slow, is sure and permanent.

  112. I am sure it wants to try the taste of the earth!

  113. Your teeth must be for tearing and cutting: I am sure you do not chew your food as I have to do.

  114. I am not quite sure where she found it, but it was in the ground, I think.

  115. Dora said 'They would be sure to want them in the winter.

  116. Dora was sure that she could not pick them out so quickly.

  117. Fernanda is a very good girl; I am sure that she will make you happy; you will have many sons, and after a long and happy life you will go to heaven.

  118. And I say that if his Holiness sent me to put a bayonet through the stomach of that constable, you may be sure I would put two.

  119. It is difficult to say, but they had brought so many affairs to a successful issue that they certainly must have had some simple, sure recipe.

  120. And in the furtive glances she cast at him there was the touch of superiority and irony of one, who was sure of the game.

  121. The young ladies were all so sure that he would not be successful that they willingly accepted the condition.

  122. He slept well, ate well, and nothing seemed to worry him; but his life seemed slipping away, in a slow but sure consumption.

  123. Whenever Manuel Antonio was spoken of, the bracelet was sure to be mentioned, as if there was nothing about his interesting person more calculated to excite attention.

  124. I don't know, but I am perfectly sure they were not made in Madrid.

  125. And are you sure that I only came to see the roses?

  126. Amalia said she would undertake to have it treated like her own daughter, she would have her brought up as a perfect little lady, and she was sure Don Pedro would not oppose her in the matter.

  127. Nevertheless, the red face of Garnet shone like that of a god sure of his omnipotence.

  128. But Luis is a strange sort of man; I think he is quite incapable of marrying, and I am sure she thinks so too.

  129. At all events, you can be sure that my remorse is softened by the sweet recollection of the years that I have loved you.

  130. But whenever a problem of economy came to the fore, the Pensioner was sure to have all four children against him.

  131. They are then sure that they will avoid the dangerous shoal.

  132. You must pardon father, as much for his well-meaning ignorance of such matters, as for this cup of cream, which I am sure you will better relish.

  133. Eight women out of ten, belonging to the humbler classes, are sure to be thus encumbered.

  134. Santa Rosalia is a quiet, quaint old place, with six or seven thousand inhabitants; but, being on the direct line of the Mexican Central Railroad, it is sure to rapidly increase in numbers and in material prosperity.

  135. The art gallery will be sure to greatly interest the stranger, as being the foundation of an institution evidently destined in time to reach a high degree of excellence.

  136. Any ordinary cabin or other frail building which is struck by a sand-spout is pretty sure to be demolished.

  137. The swarthy soldiers of the republic are often seen paraded opposite the plaza, and though they are sure to recall the French Zouaves, yet they lack their admirable discipline and perfection of company movements.

  138. The lesser party to such a system is pretty sure to be cheated right and left, especially as the estate is nearly always administered by an agent and not by the owner himself.

  139. There is no such handicapping of rural industry now enforced, and sugar and tobacco, which are always sure of a ready market where transportation is to be had, are engaging more and more of the attention of planters.

  140. Where a trunk line of railroad a thousand miles or more is demanded, as in the instance of the Mexican Central, they are sure to be found at the front, with capital, executive ability, and the energy which commands success.

  141. A small Grecian temple surrounded by columns incloses this commemorative group, to which the traveler will be very sure to pay a second visit before leaving the capital.

  142. The Mexican macaw is pretty sure to be represented by a fine member of his species in these ornamental patios.

  143. If a gun was fired from the Alamo, one of the besiegers was sure to fall.

  144. The Bishop's Coach" is set to a bit of old Plain-Chant, and I introduce a Fugue at the words "Sure as eggs is eggs.

  145. To Macready he wrote: 'The more I think of Marston's play, the more sure I feel that a prologue to the purpose would help it materially, and almost decide the fate of any ticklish point on the first night.

  146. If some folks were as young as I, I'm sure they'd like it quite as well.

  147. Sure enough, I did crawl out of bed backwards this morning!

  148. And sure enough that was the case, for although they had eaten almost all of the ice cream and candy before now the two boxes were filled again.

  149. Squirrels are such knowing little creatures, I am sure another might drop a nut which would grow into a lovely tree to keep me company.

  150. So you may be sure there were plenty of cookies and ice cream and candies and golden doughnuts and everything.

  151. So Marjorie looked up the road with a smile and, sure enough, it did not seem so far to the store, and when she turned around, she was sitting upon the stone alone.

  152. She stopped and looked him squarely in the eye and the little old man felt he should recognize her, but he could not remember where he had seen her before, nor was he sure that he had ever looked upon her until now.

  153. You may be sure it was a very happy place to live and the children made Sally Migrundy very happy.

  154. And, sure enough, old Witchy Crosspatch had to go back to Make-Believe Land and hide her head, so Marjorie spent a lovely, happy day with Merry Chuckle.

  155. If at any time a "cheap place" is to be met with, be quite sure that there is some drawback to compensate for the low price.

  156. If any lady who has one or two cows will instruct her servant to follow our directions, she will always be sure of good butter, with very little trouble.

  157. I am quite sure that a poultry-yard may be made very profitable to any one who will bestow a little trouble on it.

  158. Well, then, who will buy a cow that is sure to be dead to-morrow or next day?

  159. Now we have never felt quite sure of our butter since.

  160. We always left the pony two miles before we reached town, with strict orders to the civil ostler to whose care we confided him to great care of him, and be sure and give him a "good feed.

  161. No matter how long the cow had calved, how hot or how cold the weather, if we put the cream into the churn at that degree of heat the butter was sure to come, in as near as possible the time we have specified.

  162. This made us sure that the Turkish army could not be far away, but our aeroplanes reported no signs of it.

  163. I am sure a piece passed through my hair but I could not wear a gold braid for a wound because, not even with a candle, could the doctor find a mark.

  164. And the army will never quit until we have sure victory, for we dare not break faith with our dead.

  165. Only let us be sure that we were off to war, and we could stand even the Puppy's yelping.

  166. But if you are quite sure in your own mind that you are going to kill every man who comes against you, you will do it.

  167. He showed all the symptoms of danger being near; and sure enough on looking through my glasses I saw what appeared to be a man with a rifle crouched behind a bush.

  168. And sure enough a day or two later I was put in the electric chair for "reactions.

  169. You are always nervous the first time in a new trench, as you do not know the danger-spots and are not even quite sure in which direction the enemy lies, for the communication-trench zigzags so.

  170. The next night, as the attack was to take place at daybreak, I thought I had better go over and make sure that I had made no mistakes.

  171. The driver took reasonable care, but could not go too slow, for another load was waiting for him as soon as he could return, but I am sure that I felt every stone in that road.

  172. I even placed buttons in the German wire so as to be sure that our patrols did not just go outside our own trench and lie in a shell-hole until it was time to return, for they had to signal by pressing these buttons at intervals.

  173. I am quite sure that each battery "over yonder" had a book that laid down a certain number of rounds to be fired at a certain range on Mondays, and so on for every day in the week.

  174. I am quite sure that were it a prison and a treadmill he could not hate it the more.

  175. I went to bed slowly, without locking it, and never got up in the middle of the night to make sure that everything was firmly closed.

  176. And you may be sure that he does not threaten idly.

  177. There is a proverb which says that happiness often passes our way; I am sure that I have often passed alongside the one who could have caught me like a linnet in the snare of her fresh beauty.

  178. I thought of Solomon, who made the Queen of Sheba walk on a mirror that he might be sure that her feet were not cloven.

  179. In order to be sure to make no mistake, I again counted out loud: 'Two.

  180. So looks one who is watching the sure flight of an arrow, or the happy combinations of an intrigue.

  181. Considering also that she ought to be heard moving about in the process of undressing, she rose from the bed to make sure of her reading of the guilty clock.

  182. She was excited and stunned by her immediate experience in the transfer of money, and she said, 'I 'm sure I don't know what you want.


  183. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; absolutely; admissible; agape; agog; alright; anticipating; anticipatory; arrogant; assertive; assured; assuredly; authentic; authoritative; bound; calculable; categorical; certain; certainly; certified; circumstantial; clear; cocksure; collected; conclusive; confident; convinced; convincing; course; cumulative; damning; dead; decided; decisive; definite; deliberate; dependable; destined; determinate; determinative; determined; devout; documentary; documented; dogmatic; doubtless; eager; emphatic; evidential; exactly; expectant; expecting; explicit; eyewitness; factual; faithful; fast; fated; fateful; fearless; final; fine; firm; firsthand; flat; forestalling; forewarned; gaping; good; guaranteed; hearsay; hopeful; implicit; incontestable; incontrovertible; incorruptible; indeed; indefeasible; indicative; indisputable; ineluctable; inerrant; inescapable; inevitable; inexorable; infallible; inflexible; insured; invincible; inviolable; irrefutable; irresistible; irrevocable; material; naturally; necessary; optimistic; oui; overconfident; overweening; overwhelming; palpable; persuaded; pietistic; pious; poised; pompous; positive; positively; precisely; predestined; predetermined; predictable; prepared; presumptive; proud; proven; purposeful; quite; rather; ready; really; relentless; reliable; responsible; right; rocky; safe; sanguine; satisfied; secure; significant; solid; sound; stable; staunch; steadfast; steady; straight; substantial; suggestive; sure; surely; symptomatic; telling; tested; true; truly; trustworthy; trusty; unafraid; unambiguous; unavoidable; uncontrollable; undisputed; undoubting; unequivocal; unerring; unfailing; unfaltering; unhesitating; univocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; unwavering; unyielding; valid; waiting; warranted; weighty; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sure about; sure enough; sure she; sure sign; sure that; sure they; sure thing; sure thou; sure you; surely enough