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.
• 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 fastest way to make the backlash a certainty is to overreach.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 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
• There is no certainty Bronny will make the NBA, let alone be a star, let alone be what his father is.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• But that’s far closer to being a hope than a certainty.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Making that work with a new contract is not a certainty, but the groundwork for it will start this week.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
• Of course, no one can say with certainty exactly how all of this will play out.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 June 2022
• But Jones’ return to the Patriots this time around might not be a certainty.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Both seemed defined by the same certainty that the country had reached a sort of cultural precipice.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
• Yet the attention paid to these schools, and the certainty about what goes on there, has only increased.
  — Adrian Daub / Made By History, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• So, everybody can – can have a sense of certainty about that.
  — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
• California lives with the certainty that the Big One will come.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• This lack of certainty could lead to sharp market moves on Thursday.
  — George Bextor, CNBC, 31 July 2024
• Clear regulations in the U.S., once a pipedream, are now essentially a certainty.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
• What separates scientism from science is the dogmatic certainty that science can provide all encompassing answers to every question that matters on every aspect of life and that there is only one answer to all of these questions.
  — Arianna Huffington, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025