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Example sentences for "pretty certain"

  • If you do so your mail matter will be forwarded, and with proper care you will be pretty certain to get all your letters.

  • The running time to Yokohama is about twenty days, and no matter what the ship or which the company that the traveler patronizes, he is pretty certain to be pleased with his fare and treatment.

  • We are also hopeful of the defeat of Sherman--a little delay on his part will render it pretty certain.

  • It is not yet ascertained, precisely, whether Mr. Seward was really on the flag of truce steamer yesterday, but it is pretty certain that Mr. Benjamin went down the river.

  • If he were a candidate, I am pretty certain he would be elected.

  • Fight an animal, and he will fight you in return; coax him by the gentleness of your action and the sound of your voice, and he will be pretty certain to yield.

  • Therefore, though you have never been in 219 before, you are pretty certain, and I am pretty certain, that Ruth Gates knows a deal about the thing that is touching you.

  • We shall be pretty certain to find something.

  • But one thing is pretty certain--it will be a good long time before he is in a position to say anything for himself.

  • Now, if you approach that window again I am pretty certain that my revolver will go off.

  • Whenever a man attempts to reform himself, or anybody else, without the aid of the Christian religion, he is sure to go adrift, and is pretty certain to be blown about by absurd theories, and shipwrecked on some pernicious ism.

  • We may be pretty certain that he will do nothing of the kind.

  • If my brother is dead, it is pretty certain that he is not buried in St. George's or any of the other places mentioned, and the fact can easily be proved by production of the registers.

  • In the case that you are suggesting, the choice would seem to lie between burial on the premises or dismemberment and dispersal of the fragments; and either method would be pretty certain to lead to discovery.

  • I wish I knew the name of the village where the festival was held, but I'm pretty certain to find someone in the place these chaps come from who can tell me.

  • It's pretty certain you've been allowed to go in peace in the hopes of drawing me out as well.

  • Any one who has had experience with wolves is pretty certain to conclude that they are intelligent--that they reason.

  • The spectacular, reckless, grand-stand bravery that is pretty certain to be accompanied by death does not appeal to the wolf.

  • When a mountain lion is frightened, or when pursued by dogs, he is pretty certain to take refuge in a tree.

  • The country people look on the sale of this as a vested right, and naturally resent any outsider cutting it or interfering with them; and, if they do, there is pretty certain to be a disturbance and unpleasantness.

  • If a horse refuses his feed, it should be at once thrown away, and on no account be kept till the next meal, by which time it is pretty certain to have fermented.

  • The caravanserai proprietor approaches me, and winking mysteriously, intimates that by going outside and riding for the edification of the new arrivals I will be pretty certain to get a present of a keran (about twenty cents).

  • Wherever there is any money to be made, John is pretty certain to be near by.

  • With each house there is pretty certain to be a garden in which yams, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, fruit, and chickens are grown.

  • Many of them are now rarely to be found near the settlements, but one kind is pretty certain to be found at all times and seasons--the Tasmanian devil.


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


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