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
• 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
• Staying out of the lottery seemed like a near certainty.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2022
• There's still no certainty around if or even when that would/could happen.
  — Jeff Marks,zev Fima, CNBC, 2 July 2025
• Dean said several factors influenced his decision to offer the lesser charge in exchange for a plea of guilty and the certainty of prison time.
  — arkansasonline.com, 11 July 2025