On more than one occasion they invited certain death by riding forward on horseback to within a few hundred yards of our line.
The thrust was made through the Canadian left and centre, and as the troops went forward, many of them going to certain death, they broke out into loud cheers for Canada.
German staff, and battalions of men marched out obediently to certain death, sometimes with incredible folly on the part of their commanding officers, who ordered these attacks to be made without the slightest chance of success.
Many times through all those years they marched shoulder to shoulder, obedient to discipline, to certain death, as I saw them on the Somme, like martyrs.
In some of the houses they would not surrender, afraid of certain death, anyhow, and kept the Scots at bay awhile until those kilted men flung themselves in and killed their enemy to the last man.
His bite is certain death, I believe, as I never heard of a man recovering from the wound.
They may have been new troops, but they were not old men driven on by their officers to certain death in massed formation, and they were all the more formidable for that.
Many will fight as long as there is hope, but few will go down to certain death.
Most bravely did you seek almost certain death, alone, bearing the cross in hand as your only weapon, to preach charity and Christian brotherhood.
You and your accomplices sent my children to certain death.
The poison which she has taken results in certain death.
Certain death," said he, "to whichever of you allows any one but myself to enter these gardens.
As you may perceive yonder, Captain Wells rides forth with blackened face to what he deems to be certain death.
I have small choice in the matter; 't would be certain death otherwise, for I know not east from west in this blind waste of sand.
He called to mind, however, a moment which, if not the most exciting moment of his life, at any rate brought him within as grim a handshaking proximity to certain death as he had ever yet attained.
I have looked at `certain death' before, yet here I am.
Thou wouldst go to certain death," she said; "think of me and thy little children.
For any pastor or preacher to be apprehended, was, of course, certain death.
Then calmly smiling, at the head of his handful of men he rode to certain death.
And the battery was led out as dashingly as if on parade, although the men well knew that they were going to certain death.
To be bitten by the m'namba is certain death, no case ever having occurred of a man or any cattle having been bitten and having lived after it.
To have been bitten would have been certain death, for a full-grown active cobra is sure to kill where he strikes.
Thou wilt drive thy suitors from thee; or if any be foolhardy enough to run with thee, they will run to a certain death.
No man will run to a certain death, my father," she answered.
No man would run to certain death," he said, "were the maid as fair as Aphrodite.
She must cross this narrow place over which I had to creep on hands and knees, or be dashed down fifty feet to a certain death.
His men had now been shot; to go within his reach would be certain death.
To touch the king's throne or clothes, even by accident, or to look upon his women is certain death.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain death" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
