Certain

//ˈsɜː.tən//

"Certain" in a Sentence (34 examples)

I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.

I'm certain of your success.

Your eyes have a certain magnetism.

There is certain to be some opposition to your suggestion.

It is certain that the price of gold will go up.

It is not fitting for a teacher to overly favor certain pupils over others.

Please make certain your seat belt is fastened.

I cannot say for certain that the patient will recover.

There is one thing that is certain.

In conversation, one is likely to find out certain things about the other person quite easily.

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I was certain of my decision.

[…] I think, nay, I may say that I'm sartain, we'll have a hurricane afore morning. It's not the first time I've cruised in these latitudes.

Now that more experiments have been run, the theory is certain and the argument is settled.

[…]the dreame is certaine, and the interpretation thereof ſure.

It is certain that Spain will reach the finals. / Spain is now certain to reach the finals. / Spain is now certain of a place in the finals.

Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.

[…]death (as the Pſalmiſt ſaith) is certaine to all, all ſhall die.

How vain is Virtue which directs our ways Through certain danger to uncertain praiſe!

I have often wished, that I knew so certain a remedy in any other disease

at certain intervals

Then ſaid the Lord vnto Moſes, Behold, I will raine bread from heauen for you: and the people ſhall goe out, and gather a certaine rate euery day, that I may proue them, whether they will walke in my Law, or no.

Every wine has a certain distinctive character which sets it apart from all others.

Each morning, she would see a certain man rush past her window on his way to work.

And it came to paſſe, when he was in a certaine citie[…]

About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum[…]

I would have been here on time, but a certain someone lost the car keys!

Looking inside the cover, they learned that the book had once belonged to a certain R. Jones.

About 140 years ago, for example, a certain Hsü Kuang-ming established an ancestral estate in Wanluan consisting of ten hectares. The trust was specifically set aside to provide for his own worship after death, and access to its profits was to be enjoyed only by his descendants.

Since the last British government to make such a proposal was that of a certain Margaret Thatcher, it might not seem unreasonable.

However I with thee have fixt my Lot, Certain to undergoe like doom[…]

Certain people are good at running.

One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

She mentioned a series of contracts, of which certain are not cited.

[…]certaine of the Jewes banded together[…]

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