CERTAINLY in a Sentence

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1. He certainly is a marvellous actor.
2. Paul's certainly mellowed over the years.
3. He certainly was not politically inactive.
4. Music can certainly enrich your whole life.
5. The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.

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 Meanings and Examples of CERTAINLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
certainly
 ad.  definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
5  Whatever the motives of these extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  "Most certainly there is," I answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
7  The window was open now; the birds certainly were singing.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  And certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  He certainly never had seen this old woman before.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
10  That time, to which he has so long, and certainly with great constancy, looked forward, is now come.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
11  It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
12  It certainly did seem that the whelp yielded to this influence.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
13  Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ridiculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the universities, was ridiculous to a degree.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  Connie wondered what else they had: certainly neither eyes nor minds.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Music can certainly enrich your whole life.
17  I can certainly feel the effects of too many late nights.
18  He certainly was not politically inactive.
19  Everything goes amiss with him, he has certainly bad luck.
20  Poor organization was certainly a contributory factor to the crisis.
21  I can certainly assure you I'm looking after number one all right.
22  He certainly is a marvellous actor.
23  The company certainly has the potential for growth.
24  It was certainly useful to have her there to chauffeur him around.
25  We've certainly got our share of problems at the moment.
26  I certainly don't have anything to prove-my record speaks for itself.
27  Paul's certainly mellowed over the years.
28  Frequent cultural exchange will certainly help foster friendly relations between our two universities.
29  The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.
30  I can't say for definite who did it, but I certainly have my suspicions.