How to Use given in a Sentence

given

noun

• In our system it is a given that all are equal before the law.
• Of that group, Friedrich and Cosart are far from givens to return – at least on major league deals.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• As the second half of the bill will explain, the emotional givens are only part of the equation.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Although people are born with some biological givens, the brain has many blank pages.
  — Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
• That had coach James Borrego stressing that there would be no givens with his lineups going forward.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2019
• The school has a very active group of parents and emphasizes science and technology — things that are not givens in many city schools.
  — Kristen A. Graham, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.
  — Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• And though both are givens in fashion drops around their respective season, corduroy still hasn't totally shed its nostalgic veneer.
  — Ana Colón, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2018
• Love arrived recognizing there would be no givens, with the Heat’s rotation largely in place two-thirds into the season.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
• Those are givens – magnets for homebuyers looking to raise families in a pleasant environment.
  — Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 15 May 2017
• Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
• Liberal education is about questioning givens, not reaffirming them.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
• The dangers of sight and occupying open space are just plot-device givens now, while expected resolutions to Part One’s many dangling questions never arrive.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 July 2023
• Private cloud is also where organizations can focus on delivering AI and what’s next, knowing that security, governance and compliance are givens rather than points of concern.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Such an error would skew the data, in which case the BAO measurements and Euclid's weak gravitational lensing results will diverge, and cosmologists will need to rethink their givens.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Such an error would skew the data, in which case the BAO measurements and Euclid’s weak gravitational lensing results will diverge, and cosmologists will need to rethink their givens.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023