How to Use surety in a Sentence

surety

noun
  • As sureties, they will be liable in his place.
  • But large-scale sales or any kind of surety that they’ll be achieved are a long way away.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Claims would be processed by the bond or surety provider, not FMC.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Chudhary's parents and cousin, who were present, would sign as sureties.
    Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The bond can be paid through cash, a commercial surety, or a court program that requires a payment of 10% of the bond amount.
    Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Schoeff said charges were filed and a warrant was issued for one count of child seduction and $5,000 cash or surety bond.
    Jessica Hice, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2017
  • Larkin was ordered to put up two properties as surety on the $1 million bond.
    Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Baratov’s parents had offered act as their son’s sureties.
    Rob Gillies, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
  • The accused will continue to be detained until the court approves their sureties.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Her bail set at $4,000 cash surety, while he is ordered to be held without bond, according to court records.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2021
  • Michelle de Joya’s Velma doesn’t have quite the confidence and surety of her more seasoned stagemate.
    Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Friends and family offered up their houses as sureties on a $2 million bond.
    Alison Griswold, Quartz, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The next major piece of the nuclear surety puzzle is people.
    Michael Auslin, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Thoughtful in his words, Benjamin speaks with a surety uncommon in teens.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The five suspects were arraigned Tuesday at District Court and were released on surety bail.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The Scottsdale Unified school board members do not have surety bonds, and they are not required to do so under Arizona law.
    NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The real Divine, Logan said with surety, would love its status.
    Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • Johnson was taken to the Bates County Detention Center, and bond was set at $9,000, cash or surety.
    Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
  • To secure the bonds, companies pay a surety firm a one-time fee — typically 20% to 50% of the face value, according to Hoops.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to providing more surety, a bill could reach further than a simple court rule change.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Mom-and-pop bail companies are backed by large surety companies, which guarantee the full amount of the bond in exchange for a portion of the premium.
    Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Magistrate Mark Watson set his bail at $9,000 cash surety.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • And the decision to keep the identities of the sureties hidden from public view only exacerbates those challenges.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • Legal experts said there was little chance Santos would actually be detained even if his sureties were to back out.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • The lawyer, Joseph Murray, contended that Santos, 34, was willing to go to jail to protect his sureties’ anonymity, and asked that the judge allow them time to potentially withdraw.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • Clark says few contractors could afford the financial risk without any surety they would be licensed.
    Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As Trump prepared to depart Washington last Friday, there was little surety among his staff that the nine-day odyssey could proceed without failure.
    Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 28 May 2017
  • The limit essentially sets the amount of credit a surety company will provide to a contractor.
    Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2018
  • She was released from Monroe County Jail earlier this week after posting a $1.5 million bond via a surety company.
    Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The effect was to de- and re- contextualize the clichés of femininity and masculinity; to challenge any entrenched sense of surety about what is fancy, what is professional, what is kitschy, what is tough, what is fragile.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023

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