How to Use insure in a Sentence

insure

verb

• We insured our house against fire and flood damage.
• They take great care to insure the safety and security of their home.
• This policy will insure your car against theft.
• We hope that careful planning will insure success.
• I found a company that will insure my car for less than I've been paying.
• She had difficulty finding a company that would insure her.
• The car was not insured, and Cook did not have a license at the time of the crash.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• The cost to insure sovereign debt from default dropped the most in a month.
  — Christine Jenkins, Bloomberg.com, 28 June 2017
• Those on the front line cannot insure themselves against the climate crisis.
  — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• Even for those who are insured, there are still endless hoops to jump through.
  — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 21 July 2015
• There are other ways to insure against a crash than buying bonds.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• So the onus is on the consumer to read the fine print and independently insure their items.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Tourism will likely take a hit, and the cost of insuring the movement of goods will go up.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• In that time the juices will redistribute, helping to insure moist meat.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 12 July 2020
• So are the tens of thousands of farmers whose crops were not insured and were lost to flooding last year.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• The state was one of the few where the number of insured increased this year even as federal numbers dropped.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• First, how long will the cheese take to deliver, and how will it be shipped to insure freshness?
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The task that remains is to insure that more of us might actually live there.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 14 June 2020
• In Africa few farms are insured, so there is less pressure.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• The warehouse was equipped with sprinklers and was insured, the company said.
  — SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• The property was insured, and the residents can still live there.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2019
• Many farmers lost equipment and fences that weren’t insured.
  — David Winning, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
• Must be partnered with a bank to insure customer deposits.
  — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Of course, there are other vehicles that can be cheap to insure.
  — Idalia Garcia, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• Public pools are costly for cities to maintain and insure.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 22 July 2023
• The homeowner must insure the structure, something the renter doesn’t have to do.
  — Jim Probasco, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Care should be taken to leave a minimum of two birds from the group to insure winter survival.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Rotate pan in a shallow circle to insure that the flour coats the bottom and sides, then tip out excess.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
• Although he was insured through Nerds on Call, the costs for his care still added up.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2019
• The cannabis money is in a bank but securities have to be purchased to insure it.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024