How to use "certain" in a sentence

What will I need for the job? The knife, that's certain, but also a tourniquet to stop the blood

I am so certain of this that I take the knife and write the dates of my life on the canyon wall

I am certain that this will be my last message to my family.

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt, can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Mrs Darrell did not see his face, so her impression that he was a darklooking foreigner aged over forty is not certain.

But it is certain that the Ripper was not Jewish, and Samuel Montague, an important Jewish citizen and MP, offered a reward of 100 pounds for the arrest of the murderer

On October 13th the police began to search every house in a certain radius of the crimes

He remembered clearly the young man in the Luxembourg Gardens who had shown such great interest in Cosette, and he was certain that this was the man she had written to.

He was still certain to die, and Valjean's happiness would be safe

Both ways meant certain death

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen

At a certain temperature it completely burns away

Sala was certain now

Tina Evans sat straight up in bed, certain that she had heard a noise in the house

At the time, Tina was certain that Danny was aware of the nightly arguments she and Michael were having in their own bedroom, which was next to his, and that he wanted to move into the den so he wouldn't be able to hear them bickering

The Pyramid had been built at a cost in excess of four hundred million dollars, and the owners had made certain that every last dime showed

She was certain to be quite late, but she wasn't going to worry about waking him.

For several seconds she was certain that she could feel the switch straining under her fingertip as it tried to pop on.

She hesitated, fingers on the keyboard, not certain if she should proceed

"Are you certain?"

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

The big man had been overconfident, certain that his six-inch advantage in height and his extra eighty pounds of muscle made him unbeatable

Left-wingers and right-wingers differed about certain details, of course, but their only major point of contention centered on the identity of those who would be permitted to be a part of the privileged ruling class, once the power had been sufficiently centralized.

Not until he's absolutely certain the heat is off

If he's subjected to many more of these sudden temperature fluctuations, we'll never be certain they didn't contribute to his death

A neatly folded pair of twenty-dollar bills, placed without ostentation into the hand of a front-desk clerk, was almost certain to result in the timely discovery of a forgotten vacancy.

I might even take a certain pleasure in it

"It exists, and that's where he is," she said, trying to sound more certain than she actually was.

I received a death threat by phone the night before the arbitration - I can't say for certain that it was from the writer; the voice was so deep that it might have been his mother - and the next morning the law firm handling the studio's case assured me that they had taken extra security measures for the meeting

She was allowed to go into the garden during certain hours of the day, and had been given a little square where she could grow flowers

He knew that the Air Ministry would have forbidden some of them as too dangerous, but he wanted to be certain about the results before reporting his discovery.

But I'm certain it will go through all right.'

'It's not certain that he did kill him.'

'And Dr Haydock is certain that the murder could not have been committed at the time you say you did it

And I think we ought to find out for certain.' I went once more to the telephone and called Old Hall

Well, this person said they saw a certain lady walk up the road that goes to the vicarage

It was eleven o'clock at night, but when I saw a light in a certain upstairs window, I stopped and rang the doorbell

After that no group of men would stand against them, because this would mean almost certain death.

It is certain that many died at home, killed by the Black Smoke.

I know a little of psychology and I am absolutely certain that they exchanged thoughts.

I am certain that King Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in several other places, too.

He was certain that she knew the secret

I have heard the news of a certain gentleman's death

I had certain suspicions, so I wrote a letter to Mrs Catherick's old employer, Major Donthorne of Varneck Hall