How to Use certainty in a Sentence

certainty

noun

• There was no certainty that the package would arrive in time.
• Scientists still do not know with any degree of certainty why the disease spread so quickly.
• We cannot predict the outcome with absolute certainty.
• Her certainty about these complex moral issues is surprising.
• But that’s far closer to being a hope than a certainty.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• The only certainty is that lawyers will earn more than many members of either tour.
  — Eamon Lynch, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• Dave – with his elegant hand – has retained a dead certainty about the meat grinder.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2022
• One certainty is that her guilty verdict likely won't be overturned.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• The number isn't known with certainty because fawns continue to be born at the site.
  — Paul A. Smith, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• People turn to psychics, palm readers, and self-help gurus in search of such certainty.
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2022
• Though the goal is adding two teams by next year, Hefford and Scheer would not commit to that being a certainty.
  — John Wawrow, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2024
• This study and others call for more research to say with greater certainty that probiotic-rich foods may be helpful.
  — Brierley Horton, Ms, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2022
• Credits that have been extended every two years will now last a decade, increasing certainty about the future.
  — Steven Mufson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Unlike a digital system, where a bit can be flipped from a one to a zero with certainty, a quantum computer operates in an analog world.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
• Patients who have been suffering for months are understandably drawn to doctors who instead promise certainty.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 26 July 2022
• Months in advance, the United States knew with certainty that Putin was planning an all-out invasion of Ukraine.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 23 July 2022
• Republicans are counting on what some pollsters have called the hidden Trump vote, although pollsters also say there's no certainty that group still exists.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• Another certainty, experts say, is that the atmospheric impacts of spaceflight are bound to increase as the number of launches and reentries skyrockets.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
• Your sword of certainty can cut through the fog of doubt.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
• The Avs talk in certainties about Nichushkin, about his game.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2024
• The first is a desire to know the truth and have clarity and certainty.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• The certainty that Ramadan would end, and so would the hunger, made the days easier.
  — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• While not a certainty, the strong players are looking good to achieve this goal.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Heading into the draft, there was no certainty beyond the No. 1 pick and even that wasn’t a lock.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2023
• There was never a doubt in my mind—still isn’t—and in some ways this certainty unnerved me.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• There's more certainty that those will come in the late afternoon and evening.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2024
• One certainty Smith has is that these young women will face pain and loss.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• He is considered the likely top pick in the 2023 NBA draft and is a near-certainty to be the first top-five draft pick from France.
  — Jerome Pugmire, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• Yet the emotion — the certainty of losses past and still to come — felt powerful and new.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• This is one of the few things anyone can say with any certainty about the Adams mayoralty.
  — Curbed, 22 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024