How to Use certainly in a Sentence

certainly

adverb

• The snake that bit her was almost certainly poisonous.
• The new version is most certainly easier to use.
• I'm certainly going to try.
• This year's festival was certainly much better than last year's.
• It will certainly rain tomorrow.
• Howe will certainly hope that is the case.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• But that hard work has certainly paid off.
  — Daily News, 8 May 2026
• Each of these three works is most certainly a salve.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• So there certainly is room to grow.
  — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
• The beats in the song certainly didn’t help.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
• There are certainly good things about this trend.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• That certainly that doesn’t seem to change from era to era.
  — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
• So, the votes certainly did him harm.
  — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2025
• And dance it most certainly did.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2026
• One thing is certainly true, though.
  — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Still, this could certainly be worse.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• It's been proven time and again that what goes around most certainly comes back around.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• Things have certainly changed since then.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 8 May 2026
• And Leon was certainly a part of that.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
• There’s certainly a case where purists may not like some, or all, of these changes.
  — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
• But to this old scout, the Mets can certainly win it all.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• And Judge certainly knows how to bounce back.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
• That is certainly the case with Dell.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• But times have certainly changed.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
• Some points were certainly proven.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
• That all has to be there, and that was certainly part of my childhood.
  — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
• But yeah, that was certainly my happy place this past week.
  — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
• That certainly crossed my mind.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• The Padres have certainly proved adept at prospect churn.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
• Prayer groups are certainly one way to help break the addict mind-set.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023