How to Use certainty in a Sentence

certainty

noun

• There was no certainty that the package would arrive in time.
• Scientists still do not know with any degree of certainty why the disease spread so quickly.
• We cannot predict the outcome with absolute certainty.
• Her certainty about these complex moral issues is surprising.
• Your sword of certainty can cut through the fog of doubt.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
• Close hadn’t taken the bait of the certainty of the death of painting.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2021
• The Avs talk in certainties about Nichushkin, about his game.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2024
• The fastest way to make the backlash a certainty is to overreach.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• The quake is a certainty, but could be hundreds of years off.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 25 May 2025
• The only certainty is there will be a lot of opening days for the Cubs.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
• One certainty is that many people, on the right and the left, will be watching.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2022
• The first is a desire to know the truth and have clarity and certainty.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• The certainty that Ramadan would end, and so would the hunger, made the days easier.
  — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Of course, no one can say with certainty where gas prices will go next.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• Chances are that the person is gone, but there is no certainty.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
• The certainty of Brady getting the yardage record is the least of the Patriots’ concerns.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• With Trump, the only certainty is that things could change.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• While not a certainty, the strong players are looking good to achieve this goal.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• That will give Louisville a bit more certainty week-to-week on who will be playing.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2021
• The grapes came from a vineyard west of The Dalles, where zinfandel vines can be traced back with some certainty to the mid-1880s.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2021
• Heading into the draft, there was no certainty beyond the No. 1 pick and even that wasn’t a lock.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2023
• There was never a doubt in my mind—still isn’t—and in some ways this certainty unnerved me.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• There's more certainty that those will come in the late afternoon and evening.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2024
• As the doors closed on the train, Honour recalls feeling a sense of certainty.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• One certainty Smith has is that these young women will face pain and loss.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• He is considered the likely top pick in the 2023 NBA draft and is a near-certainty to be the first top-five draft pick from France.
  — Jerome Pugmire, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• Yet the emotion — the certainty of losses past and still to come — felt powerful and new.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• This is one of the few things anyone can say with any certainty about the Adams mayoralty.
  — Curbed, 22 Aug. 2022
• Many have read Gödel and come away chastened by the limits of certainty—without concluding, as Richardson did, that the logical next step was to spend your life playing cards and paying prostitutes.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• In short, Project Artemis requires financial certainty.
  — Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2025