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Example sentences for "dead sure"

  • A child will naturally ask, why don't the ministers murder somebody, and make a dead sure thing of it?

  • A child will naturally ask why don't the ministers murder somebody and make a dead sure thing of it?

  • Why, he'd kill us some time or other, just as dead sure as we're a laying here.

  • She's a goner, just as dead sure as Muff Potter's a goner.

  • There is something there to reveal, I am dead sure.

  • The sharp looked puzzled; he had laid out for a dead sure thing, but there had come a complete change over Desmond, and it was the latter fact that scared the sharp.

  • I'm dead sure of it, and more than that, old Quito gave me to understand he believed they were connected with the junta that was pushing this new revolution in Colombia.

  • For we can be dead sure of Felipe all the time; and through him get pointers about the rest of the crew.

  • Yes, I'm dead sure of that; but Frank, there's somebody else with him!

  • My father would never throw any obstacle in the way, I'm dead sure.

  • One minute he's dead sure he won't, and the next minute he admits he don't see what harm there would be in takin' one last look.

  • He's one of these guys that throws a bluff at bein' modest; but when you scratch him deep you gets next to the fact that he's dead sure he's a genius and is anxious to prove it by the way he wears his clothes.

  • He must have had her guessin' some at that; for she wa'n't dead sure whether he was a real native or not until the boss of the island shows up.

  • Things don't look quite so dead sure as they did.

  • We're always so dead sure what's going to make other people happy, ain't we, Bob?

  • She's gone, that's dead sure; and if I don't pepper the red rascal that killed her I wish I may be split.

  • If you stay there, you'll be dead sure to be shot!

  • I'd be dead sure to kill one, I know I would," said Sneak.

  • But the minute we springs it, ma'am, or turns it up, we'll be dead sure to put you on in a jiff.

  • When he let up, she continued: "And it's dead sure I go to the Shore each summer?

  • The two of us felt so dead sure we knew it all, that nothing would do for us but to come away up here five miles or so from home, just to show everybody that we could take care of ourselves.

  • Already I'm dead sure I'm going to get heaps of fun out of the scout business.

  • No, you are the devils, and I am after you; yes, I am, dead sure.

  • I say I can set you on to a dead sure game to prove your arrest.

  • We must protect this American woman, that is dead sure.

  • Now, I couldn't be dead sure, Ad, but as near as I can say I'd put it down as about four punchers.

  • I thought I knew them, but I wanted to be dead sure; for I'd made arrangements with Copley to tip off certain Barville batters who could be trusted to the kind of balls that would be pitched.

  • But don't forget what I said, it's fixed so Wyndham's dead sure to win Saturday.

  • Oh, it's a dead sure thing he would have done it.

  • Thank you for your confidence, my boy; but I'm not quite so dead sure as you make out," returned Elmer.

  • There never was such a long hit made on these grounds, that's dead sure.

  • He won't blab on himself, that's dead sure," remarked the tall scout.

  • Sonny," remarked the veteran left in charge, "what one of that pair forgets the other is dead sure to remember.

  • And you were so dead sure of your man Black.

  • Him and young Aydelot's dead sure to go to China soon.

  • Do I understand you won't sell lots off that ranch of yours to start a new town, and you won't run for the legislature when you're dead sure to be elected.

  • The trouble is I'm dead sure I'll not get the other fourteen hundred.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead sure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dead animal; dead animals; dead body; dead coral; dead faint; dead flat; dead horse; dead horses; dead letter; dead mother; dead shot; dead sure; dead tree; dead weight; dead whale; dead woman; dead wood; deadly fear; deadly poison; electric induction; imperial power; industrial pollution; other substances; peculiar look; poor husband; went with