How To Use Sure thing In A Sentence
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One of the most subtle allusions to horses is the word cinch, meaning a ` sure thing. '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
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I'm sure things will turn out OK.
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The City likes to measure things in quarters, carving up the year into four easily digestible parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we'd arrived at her place she'd panicked over Ken not being there, and rushed around like a madwoman checking to make sure things were still there.
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What do you expect of that ne'er-do-well relative who's always hitting you up for a loan because he's come up with a sure thing?
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The intended result may or may not be achieved in any given case, but the one almost sure thing is that unintended results - nontarget effects - will also be achieved. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Understanding the Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation
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Moe Tkacik's latest piece for her Das Krapital blog at the Washington City Paper fingers Charles Lane for most of the Washington Post's obsequious coverage of the post-crash economy -- from their overarching devotion to Timothy Geithner, to their fussbudgety and nonsensical concern-trolling over Elizabeth Warren to what Tkacik describes as an overall "neglect" of "the economy's more conspicuous challenges -- such as the foreclosure thing, about which they have yet to issue an official proclamation.
The Washington Post's TARP Mythmaking, A Recent History
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Five thousand people signed up for membership before the first roulette wheel was spun ensuring that as the showgirls high-kicked on the opening night, the Opera House Casino was already a sure thing.
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Many investors in subprime loans thought they were buying a sure thing and the quasi-government agencies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played no small role in encouraging that perception.
Canada: Land of the Free
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She's got a lot of hard workers and a foreman that makes sure things run smoothly for her when she's not there.
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The other kind of policy will insure things you own around the shared house.
The Sun
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Behind the good reviews and good audience reaction, the show did a very quick transfer to Broadway, where it was by no means a sure thing because younger audiences are not the core theatregoing crowd.
Archive 2008-12-01
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The range of SI unit prefixes is shown above; “yotta” is the largest accepted prefix, used to measure things like the diameter of the known universe (in yards).
Your Prefix of the Day: Yotta-
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ROME: Mary MacKillop's canonisation, which is regarded as a sure thing after Pope Benedict XVI's confirmation of the proofs regarding her second miracle, will take place under his policy of restoring solemnity to canonisations.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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When the clay enclosure thingie breaks off where Jet's face should be, it's actually his hands raised up in the same position he was in when "mummified" or clayified or whatever happened to him lol.
‘Mummy 4’ To Re-Locate To Latin America With New Twist, Says Director » MTV Movies Blog
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I'd doubt that he's gonna do any time, if he even gets extradited, which is also not a sure thing.
Archive 2009-09-01
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It's not just some media pressure thing; it'd be nice to have washboard abs and feel good about strutting in a swimsuit, but that's not where my sights are set.
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Where does Pelosi and Shaheen want to drill - sure thing - real "smartly" - see those red and yellow areas above?
GraniteGrok
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Even with “recommendatory” amendments, victory was no sure thing.
Ratification
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He don't usually bet unless he has got a sure thing, but when he gets what they call a pointer, that is, somebody tells him a certain horse is sure to win, because the other horses are to be pulled back, he thinks a job has been put up, and if he thinks he is on the inside of the ring he will bet.
The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883
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This proposal is by no means a sure thing.
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You'd just agreed with me about how important it is to make sure things are copacetic at the hospital.
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What do you expect of that ne'er-do-well relative who's always hitting you up for a loan because he's come up with a sure thing?
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Over this two - mile stretch, the massive sweep of the Junction Pool, with its lovely, choppy fly water at the throat and its tantalisingly glassy tail, is a sure thing at this time of year.
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The City likes to measure things in quarters, carving up the year into four easily digestible parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm sure things will settle down soon.
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Sure thing, go right ahead and make it a three strikes felony, that's what they deserve ... but, realistically, I'm not sure it would have much of a deterrent effect to a calloused lawbreaker.
How Do You Stop A Serial Poacher?
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The only sure thing is that she'll be wearing one, although, I have to say, not that -- I mean, look, sometimes I worry about myself being so immeshed into this trivia.
CNN Transcript May 7, 2007
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I would love to know exactly what your coach said to you in the three minute break - I asked him afterward why he didn't give me any tips but he just shrugged and laughed - perhaps I should have said you had an "intense" concentration - I assumed that your fleche was a desire to get rid of me, but Amanda says this isn't so - I would be curious on your side - It just seemed like such a strong and complicated move when you had, in the previous point already moved to stop from having free attacks, I couldn't go back on defence, so I assumed, you would double - since with only one point left, I really could only afford to go with a sure thing - long lunges.
How to face top fencers without crying: Canadian Women's Epee Nationals 2006-07
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Amanda : Sure thing. Anything for my favorite language partner.
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The intended result may or may not be achieved in any given case, but the one almost sure thing is that unintended results - nontarget effects - will also be achieved.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Understanding the Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation
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Gamblers have a saying: "If you bet on a sure thing, be sure to save enough money for carfare home."
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Elbert cautioned, however, that funding is far from a sure thing.
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It has occurred to me many times since this past Monday morning, since I got the phone call summoning me to the doctor's office to discuss what I knew would be bad news, that I might have been better off had I never taken any of those prenatal-got-a-healthy-baby? tests that seemed so compelling back when I was convinced that a perfectly healthy baby was a sure thing in this pregnancy.
Archive 2007-11-25
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Seabirds such as gulls and terns, even pelicans, can point the way to ‘sure thing’ action when the excited flocks are low and tight, dipping and circling.
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The problem with most "act now, just in case" demands and figuring that the "just in case" is considered a lie to suck in the skeptics... there is no "in case" because it's a sure thing is that the changes either won't do what they supposedly are supposed to do or would actually make it worse *and* that every "solution" invariably will cause *for sure* harm to economies and real people will suffer.
"Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers...."
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With Linux proliferating in consumer devices that's almost a sure thing since even if the program developer doesn't do it some firmware hacker will.
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The other kind of policy will insure things you own around the shared house.
The Sun
