How To Use Surely In A Sentence

They surely know they are going to be targets for abuse, so why do they do it?
A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.
One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update

Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
Surely at some stage in her life she will have medical or dental treatment? The Sun
Surely, no flame of piety, idealism, or self-sacrifice could burn in the cold hearts of its citizens.
As possibly the sole surviving remnant of the Dragon empire it surely deserves some backing from the industry.
Surely your computer isn't down again?
Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
S2 Surely if gloves will not stand up to basic detergent, what use are they? The Sun
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. Paulo Coelho
The entrepreneur of eye avant-courier has been her lock surely in eye shot.
Surely this would be the ideal place to locate these stall holders - still in the town centre but not causing obstructions.
Surely the time for karaoke cover singers is finished? The Sun
Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict.
Might it not be some terrible avenger, out of the mystery beyond life, placed to beset him and finish him finally on this road that he was convinced was surely the death-road? CHAPTER XXXVI
Obama would surely be careful in innovating his plan since the opposition will be attacking him even if he is successful. Times/CBS Poll: Iraq Still a Dividing Line - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
Surely he would win with this audacious plan. Times, Sunday Times
The fact that so many people were terrified of this activity must surely prove there was something wrong with it after all. Times, Sunday Times
It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM
He approaches each film in a leisurely and mechanical fashion, like a round of golf. Times, Sunday Times
But the time has surely come to blow the whistle on these jokers.
And when I had been asleep scarce six hours, I waked again very sudden, as I had done before, and had belief that something did be anigh unto me; and I gript the Diskos, and did hearken; yet was there no sound that mine ears did wot of; neither aught that had power to be surely known of the spirit. The Night Land
In other words, surely small variations to wording cannot make a significant difference to people's replies?
Surely, days of giggling about drunken escapades were long gone, too?
For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
Surely you can spare me a few minutes?
It depends whether their religion is totemistic, pantheistic or monotheistic, surely.
So, while online petitions are useless, as everyone says, surely they can do no harm.
Surely, as this puny, completely drunk man lay on top of that poor child, any one of them could have yanked him off?
Surely, an evil misdoing as such should not be rewarded in this way.
Surely you're not going to give up? I thought you were made of sterner stuff .
It is near the seafront and a leisurely stroll west will take you to Brighton. Times, Sunday Times
He was in hell, surely, eternal damnation and punishment and it would never ever end…
Besides, surely quality is better than quantity? The Sun
On current form most bookmakers will surely be offering short odds on them managing even the one point this time around.
The big ones with the tusks and the trunks are surely elephants. Times, Sunday Times
Even if these accounts are false or mistaken, surely they deserve some mention?
You're surely not going to let a job/man like that slip through your fingers!
It surely cannot happen since our laws specifically forbid it and anyone who chooses to come to live here must abide by our laws. The Sun
I don't go to bed early enough and therefore struggle to get up in time to get ready at a leisurely pace.
This is surely not so much a knock-out punch, more of a gentle slap on the wrist.
In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
Surely that must rank as one of the most useful skills that anyone could master. Times, Sunday Times
If it had not been for Kennedy, Pamela, and Captain Pellew coming to play whist the last few days, he thought he would surely go insane.
It surely cannot happen since our laws specifically forbid it and anyone who chooses to come to live here must abide by our laws. The Sun
He surely has a better chance than of changing his controversial image - or of me being the best defensive midfielder in the Bundesliga. Times, Sunday Times
The meal comes to a leisurely close with wedges of custard-filled torta or purchased almond biscotti served with vin santo, a sweet golden dessert wine, or espresso.
But as Neanderthal as a whole went extinct anyhow, these hypothetically admixed individuals left surely no heirs either. Quantifying Neanderthal introgression by serial coalescent simulations
We also balanced out the hectic days with more leisurely moments. Times, Sunday Times
Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.
Surely the blame rests squarely with Sir Ralph?
It was a party where everyone enjoys themselves; there is something for everybody whether you're a drinker or not, a dancer or a laid back kind of person; you surely won't feel left out in his party.
Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.
And as soon as he set eyes on the mother, he would surely put her under at least mild sedation as well. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
There surely can have been no more worthy recipient. Times, Sunday Times
Surely those orbital electrons in the ferromagnet will make their own contribution to the energy in the air gap, just as the supplied magnetizing current will feed in some energy. Chapter 4
It is suitable for most age groups who enjoy a leisurely stroll, making a lovely afternoons walk for families.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. Paulo Coelho
Herbert would surely advise her how to approach the bank.
They surely writhe under this pressure.
We retool each year just to change the design of cars… surely we can do the same, albeit on a grander scale, to shift more commuters to public transit.
So let's push for means-tested benefits, and hope that social security slowly but surely shrinks and evolves to a welfare system for the needy elderly. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A brace of £60,000 races highlight a cracking card at Haydock, where Time Ahead will surely take all the beating in the bet 365 Lancashire Oaks.
Borromini's was surely a life lived baroquely, and his reputation was dealt with in no less a manner. Borromini: the first architect
We started a leisurely stroll through what really were beautiful gardens.
Good governance and management of finances is surely key to keeping the debt crisis at bay.
Surely one could expect no surprises from a substance so common and so familiar.
Wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict.
This is surely not so much a knock-out punch, more of a gentle slap on the wrist.
Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
If they can make speech audible for the news, surely they can do it for drama. Times, Sunday Times
This powerful formula can surely represent the reality principle of the universe.
Some cognac with a nutty finish may be leisurely consumed at her Watergate apartment.
And, surely enough, I was hauled up into the carriage and put just as I was into the footbag lying on the front of the carriage, which was entirely open, with not even a leather apron stretched across it. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
Surely it should have been an accolade awarded on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Times, Sunday Times
Those of us who had the honour and the rare advantage of knowing him intimately and well over many years find, upon looking back upon that vast experience, something unique, over and above the learning, over and above the application of that learning to Thomism, which is surely the very heart of the Dominican affair. Belloc Speaks - To the Undying Memory
His use of the term "basically altruistic" is surely intended to be provocative, but what the economist means is that terrorists are often acting out of a desire to help others in their group. Are al-Qaida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others? | Aditya Chakrabortty
And when that happens, you will surely see Switzer and Jones locked in an embrace.
This is bound to cause inconvenience to users but is surely worthwhile given the long-term benefits of the project.
September 13th, 2009 at 5: 05 am computerist: This irrelevance blows UCD through the roof simply from the fact that these organisms are each carriers of prescribed "blueprint" information slowly but surely waiting for their next "release" state. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
I understand that the network needs to constantly stay ahead of and predict trends, and they obviously do that with inductions of new shows, like the "carb"-focused ones, but surely not at the expense of the stable of veterans that built FoodTV from the beginning to what it is today. Archive 2005-03-01
Surely, there had to be a highly developed public relations conspiracy orchestrated in the background.
Part of the problem here surely goes to Sarris's editor, who should have been able to reduce the amount of extraneous material.
If he may be capitalized (and surely he was rich enough to be), he might be described as hesitating whether to be a Plutocrat or a Good Citizen; perhaps he was hoping to be both. Under the Skylights
Surely such an incongruous question was never put in an Arab town in the heart of Africa by a sheikh dressed in bernouse and turban, with a jewel-hilted yataghan at his side, sitting cross-legged on a cushion. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
If we were to choose a single governmental function which ought to remain in the public realm -- neutrally rendered and readily scrutable -- it would surely be that upon which all other government functions, and a government's very legitimacy, are predicated: The administration of elections. Rob Richie: John Gideon, R.I.P. -- and the "Gideon Initiative" for citizenship ownership of our elections
Stayed with a friend in Keelung and "partied" there in a music bar on Wednesday night in what must surely be the deadest large city on the whole island: on Wednesday night the bars were mostly closed. Traveling....
Whatever the truth, this surely is a case where a gesture of goodwill would have been the appropriate course of action.
Surely it was just a quirky reading from a misaligned instrument, right ?
Here are some outstanding examples of blogging that caught my eye in a leisurely stroll around the blogroll earlier this morning.
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. Christina G Rossetti
The best of his five hopefuls is surely Lucky Story, who won four races last season.
Yet Europe has surely done more in the past 18 months to bring its public-debt problems under control than has the U.S. It may never have done enough, but it has been more than was imaginable as recently as 2008, when the reflex reaction to the financial crisis was a nationally oriented sauve qui peut. Europe Must Produce Fudge of Much Higher Quality
And the greatest possible power can surely sustain the grandest imaginable promises.
If this does come about, the ensuing paralysis will surely be an apposite commentary on the unhappy state of affairs we have reached where no party seems to deserve to govern us.
There were also her daily meetings with the two men, one of which will surely enter family lore. Times, Sunday Times
James Forsyth on CoffeeHouse in congratulating Osborne for his intervention describes him as having been in the past "a woose", need SeanT's views on correct spelling surely its "a wuss"? and anyway he isn't going anywhere soon Politicalbetting.com
Now, if this be true, as it most indubitably is true, surely if we are interested in controlling the future in some measure, surely it is our first and paramount duty to recognize our responsibility to the future to stop war as an instrument of national policy, if this be possible. Roads to the Future
Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
Here, seeing was surely believing, but truly spiritual seeing was itself a miracle, uniquely manifested by divine grace to this holiest of prayerful petitioners.
Surely, the organisers who knew well in advance that there was a tie for the Miss personality and a Viewers Choice Winner should have prepared themselves better.
And surely there is a less intrusive way of telling the world what a loving husband she has? The Sun
Man, you are surely travelling overfast," said he. Chennai
And surely even in books, Flora, the heroine wouldn't go back to such a rotter ? SOMEBODY
Surely other female stars must now feel the pressure to do the same? Times, Sunday Times
Kindly bear with us for another 2 working days and I can assure you that we will surely update you with the status.
Then truth surely shall be tint, and none shall lippen to other; Castle Dangerous
Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche? Two Expressions
I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style. "To Make the Bears Dance"
The older I get, the less I want to subsume my entire life's work and hopes into some poor small person who would have done nothing to deserve the resentment I would surely feel. Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing
Surely you may say, the Earth is almost wholly rock and nearly all incandescent with heat.
Now that we have seen his response to the revelations, it is surely beyond dispute that he is a liability who must be removed forthwith.
And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
Surely a crucial cause of the 'credit crunch' has been overvaluation of so called toxic assets in banks' balance sheets. Times, Sunday Times
And surely there is a less intrusive way of telling the world what a loving husband she has? The Sun
The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience?
If there is any one aspect of the Renaissance that can be said to have been characteristic, that must surely be the movement known as humanism.
His name meant ` starshine "; surely this man would understand that? KARA KUSH
Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
If thy disease be continuate and painful to thee, it will not surely last: and a light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. Anatomy of Melancholy
Surely only the most jaded and damaged would challenge the orthodoxy of romantic love. Times, Sunday Times
The FFs surely had a distrust for foreign entanglements that was not evident in delegating to Congress the right to legislate domestically (hence the 2/3rds requirement for treaties). The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
Shop space is being vastly reduced, and rents will surely go up. Times, Sunday Times
Fearing I would soon be totally devoured, I broke away from a pash for the second time in the space of about half an hour - surely a new record.
M. Whittaker says: surely verbum definiendum, clausa definiens if you un-distill the sense. The Volokh Conspiracy » Definiendum
Surely, for £10 million, we could build the new police station with quality stone features instead of a boring square that will look a dirty, streaky eyesore within three years.
Shame it's not with one hand, in what surely Simon knows as the wanking sign. Rude animation requested and produced.
Informal target shooting, plinking if you will, is made more enjoyable with a fine firearm as surely as is serious competition.
Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
Surely they're not sick of the media circus already?
This surely helps to ensure the safety of children and presents a more aesthetic appearance to the proposed development.
Surely, some say, these elites should not be entirely exempt from pressure to adopt more climate friendly lifestyles.
This true eccentric was lucky enough to find a lover, Tom Lee, who gave Russell the kind of unstinting love and support most artists only dream of and which surely helped him realize his creative dreams. Bright Lights After Dark
This is surely not only the earliest marble statue we possess but one of the first made.
Families have said they want a public declaration that the victims were innocent, and that surely will happen this time.
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
Surely mistakes were made, and valuable lessons learned.
Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
The most common parental admonition must surely be "Don't stay out late".
If accounting were ‘only accounting,’ then an organization could not make predictive and prescriptive changes to its functions based on this institutional retrospection, which it surely needs to do.
Surely he cannot be serious as to the farming out of such a serious subject as the future of the environment
MR. COLLIER'S anonymous annotator writes "tilled;" but surely this is a very artificial process to be performed by "spongy Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
Yet since its 2006 float, the share price has been on a leisurely saunter. Times, Sunday Times
-- 'And surely,' he continues, 'if the purpose be in good earnest, _not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure_' -- note it -- that which men may read at leisure -- 'but really to The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
In view of the current state of the art I can do no more here than suggest that alternative approaches are surely possible.
The park has become a place where office workers brown-bag it and take leisurely strolls.
I want to say that was a sylph… but surely they all died or fled long ago, didn't they?
There's an extensive wine list for those planning a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
Surely Langlands & Bell could not survive this far from a place that starches shirts?
But surely boab we'd need to keep the windows closed in the event. Swine Flu comes to Scotland
I believed her-for surely she would not lie to me.
This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind.
Incorporation of any such existent data would surely bias our analysis.
If he didn't hurry, there would be nowhere to hide, and he and Anne would surely die.
Yet, as Bolger leisurely sets the stage for the coming conflict, the story comes alive.
Barring any unexpected operatic plot twists down the road, the answer to all these queries is surely yes.
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
When the voice-producer has learned to intonate surely, when the voice is "placed," and the secrets of the registers are known to him, he will do well to experiment a little, cautiously, with his own resonance-chambers, so as to widen his practical knowledge of the principles underlying the modification of tones. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
Surely most of us who have children can recall the bleary days of early parenthood when that baby woke us throughout the night. Kids sleep with their cell phones: Are they suffering from connection addiction?
Of our conferrence I need not tell you the effect; it surely may be forgiven me, if on this occasion I forgot the decency of common forms. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
Surely there are enough people out there, interested in their Town, to form an Action Group, and get things moving?
The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
This new dispensation is likely to strike many of us as chaotic -- Grossman is being disingenuous when he writes that "None of this is good or bad," since he surely knows most of his readers judge it to be bad indeed -- especially those of us who want some of those "conventional criteria for literary value" to survive. Principles of Literary Criticism
It's only a snapshot but I think it shows there is not necessarily a read-across from Wikio ranking to traffic which you surely need for proper influence. Archive 2009-07-01
Surely in the world, there's expert in this task, but that expert does not work on your little cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere.
For this aged, scholarly, conservative, uncharismatic Bavarian theologian will surely hasten precisely the de-Christianisation of Europe that he aims to reverse.
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
Surely you need to do a picture of GOB doing his coin spraying trick... sorry...illusion. Never-nude Arrested!
You surely don't think Gorge could sing in public, do you? He can't sing for toffee!
If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
She'd been on everybody's back most of the week, getting a feel for her New York companies and finishing up with dinner with Eric last night-which, while fun, could not by any stretch of the imagination be called restful-and today Ria was looking forward to a leisurely day of shopping and sightseeing. Beyond World's End
And until you see that, his ambition is surely a pipe dream. The Sun
The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
This lack of explicitness will surely limit the significance of the book for researchers working in speech act theory and related fields.
It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos.
If modern psychology has done one thing, it has surely made this fact abundantly clear.
Surely the video, and the ones to come, will continue to "invigorate" our political life - perhaps a bit more than the Aftergoods of this world would like. Trina's Kitchen
Surely the ship's crew would be aware of such elementary hazards. Anti-Ice
And the Berkeley name for element 104, rutherfordium, was surely an honour due to one of the century's greatest nuclear physicists.
Ah, now, leave well enough alone, my son, surely what you have is more than enough to go on.
But surely there's a reason football is infinitely more popular than futsal. The Sun

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