How to Use presume in a Sentence

presume

verb

• The court must presume innocence until there is proof of guilt.
• This recipe presumes pork chops that are 3/4-inch thick.
  — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• This is an in-depth film about a person many presumed had no depth at all.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Just a few days after the search began, Chuck and Charley were presumed to have drowned.
  — Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), al, 12 Apr. 2023
• No one entered the classrooms, presuming that the doors were locked.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Unlike the Cowboys’ presumed No. 1 rusher, Barkley hasn’t signed the tag.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
• The sighting left the team astonished: The species has been presumed extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 200 years.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• Of course, that presumes a genuine concern on their part.
  — Ryann Liebenthal, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
• The scenes stood in contrast to what many officials had presumed would result in a rush at the border.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Wagner Group co-founder Dmitriy Utkin is also presumed to have died in the crash, the agency said.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Bad as these numbers are, there are two reasons to presume the true picture is even worse.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• Roughly 240 people are presumed to be among the hostages who have been held in Gaza since the terrorist attacks.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
• Alongside were the remains of a man presumed to have been a Roman citizen.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• They were presumed to have recently crossed the border and to have sought protection under the trees.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Anyone born before 1957 is considered to have had measles or been exposed to it and presumed to be immune to the virus.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2024
• But Migel said there is no such rule for walking on catwalks, which have handrails and knee rails and are presumed to be areas of safety.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
• Private King is presumed innocent of the charges until proven guilty.
  — Mark Guarino, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Many presume that Republicans are going to win the House.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
• It’s presumed that the two are married as Mr. Duvall is shown wearing a gold wedding band on his ring finger.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• The above illustrations presume Google Lens exists in the future.
  — WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
• The missing—whose bodies have not been recovered—are presumed to be among the hostages in Gaza, though bodies may have been taken as well.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• Even when there’s more than one leading man at the center of a story, a hierarchy is presumed.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• Looking back to 2019, the clues were always there that the rejection of the Earl of Dumbarton title was not for the reasons most presumed.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 11 Mar. 2023
• The body of a woman, presumed to be one of the victims, was found Monday morning by a commercial fishing boat close to the site of the crash, officials said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo, expressionless, as the minutes went by with no word from the lander, which is presumed to have crashed.
  — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38, was confirmed to be among those presumed to be dead.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Had that been known before the contest, everyone would have fairly presumed the Chiefs lost.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• That has accounted for slight shifts over time in the numbers of those listed as missing and presumed to have been abducted.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• It’s the sort of book that dedicated readers rarely find, one that doesn’t presume to teach us about Chekhov so much as simply enjoy him.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• At the time of the mother’s declaration, he is presumed blameless in the absence of evidence so, in a real sense, the law was on his side in that window.
  — Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024