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How to use assurance in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Assurance means the act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone. Example: “His assurance is intolerable.”

Examples of assurance by meaning

nounThe state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

  • The storm took countless lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their communities with no assurance of returning soon.2005 September 10, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address

nounFirmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

  • "Oh, that wouldn't make any difference," Benny replied with great assurance as he started to go out again.1924, Gertrude Chandler Warner, sectionTrouble^([The Box-Car Children])

nounExcessive boldness; impudence; audacity.

  • His assurance is intolerable.

More sentences with assurance

  • I took heart in the assurance that the issue was already solved.From the entry take heart
  • I'm just going to sit here on my blessed assurance until Jesus comes.From the entry blessed assurance
  • A joint life last survivor term assurance contract.From the entry last survivor
  • A joint life second death term assurance contract.From the entry second death
  • A single life term assurance contract.From the entry single life
  • A joint life endowment assurance contract.From the entry joint life
  • Something radiated from him like a sheen: a drive, a self assurance, a fixity of purpose.2026 February 17, Hugh Muir, “A historic force to be reckoned with, a giant to be mourned. Our panel pays tribute to the Rev Jesse…. From the entry radiate
  • Brazil's greater quality and assurance in possession meant England spent much of the game on the defensive.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News. From the entry on the defensive
  • Having erectile and ejaculative potency gives no assurance of orgastic potency.2003, James W. William, Relax a Little, Understand a Lot, page 85. From the entry ejaculative
  • The metamediary also provides multiple services—such as payment settlement, fulfillment, quality assurance, and procurement management.2001, Mahendra Hundal, Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry metamediary
  • All three leaders left Yalta believing they had obtained the assurances they needed for the postwar world.2000, Edward R. Kantowicz, Coming Apart, Coming Together, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry ring down the curtain
  • Having uttered these benign assurances, Mr Burner III became a brick wall.1997, Edward R.F. Sheeran, Cardinal Galsworthy, page 182. From the entry brick wall
  • Yet most twentieth-century narratives using the Oedipus myth lack these assurances and reassurances.1993, Debra Moddelmog, Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-century Fiction, page 113. From the entry deus ex machinas
  • After all, the search for such assurances will itself require us to marshall our cognitive resources.1990, Richard Foley, “Skepticism and Rationality”, in Michael D. Roth, Glenn Ross, editors, Doubting: Contemporary Perspectives on…. From the entry doubt
  • She did not move with that slick assurance born of unbounced checks.1974, Lois Wyse, The Rosemary Touch. From the entry unbounced
  • After two years she was still a copygirl with no promise or assurance of advancement.1965, Meyer L. Stein, Your Career in Journalism, Messner, page 32. From the entry copygirl
  • Nor nearer an assurance of a life, of some sort, everlasting.1924, Grant Overton, The Thousand and First Night, George H. Doran Company, page 279. From the entry glory
  • Another Creticism is the solemn assurance that the Roman Church is not in politics.1915, The Chronicle, page 15. From the entry Creticism
  • Despite the girl's assurance, we knew that proximity to the sinister Chinaman must be fraught with danger.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry lion's den
  • "Takin' a bit daunder, Laird?" said Davy with the assurance of an old servant.1913, Aylmer Keith Fraser, A Garden of Spices, page 232. From the entry daunder
  • The application of modern marker oriented analysis methods is indispensable in equivalence tests and for the quality control assurance of phytopreparations.2015 July 5, Laura Rimkiene et al., “Optimization of a CUPRAC-Based HPLC Postcolumn Assay and Its Applications for Ginkgo biloba L.…. From the entry phytopreparations
  • Evelyn Hoskins distils boyness from wide-eyed wonder and swaggering assurance.2014 July 27, Clare Brennan, The Observer. From the entry boyness
  • Despite the assurance of Klabee Robert F.2004, Shawn Lay, The invisible empire in the West, page 145. From the entry Klabee
  • Despite the praise this report received, Beida Women’s Mosque is still waiting for the Federation to act on its assurances.2001, Shui Jingjun [水镜君], “In Search of Sacred Women's Organizations”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan…. From the entry Guancheng
  • The psalm expresses security in God and gives assurance of Divine protection from dangers and calamities with which life is beset.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384. From the entry antidemonic
  • Among these, my least favorite measure — fastidious housekeeping — has proven to be the most effective anticockroach assurance.1996, Gordon, David G. (David George), 1950-, The compleat cockroach : a comprehensive guide to the most despised (and least understood)…. From the entry anticockroach
  • But one could tell from her assurance that she was nobody's fool and would stand for no nonsense.1986 January 18, Jack Anderson, “Dance: A Tribute to Jerome Robbins”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2015. From the entry nobody's fool
  • To make assurance doubly sure, you put a pencilmark against the name and “day” of your own particular great man.1984, Wit, Augusta de, Java, facts and fancies, Oxford University Press, page 85. From the entry pencilmark
  • I need that assurance, will she ruffle self’s curls and smile auntishly, or will her caress mean something?1969, Walter Harris, Clovis, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 22. From the entry auntishly
  • And this, if I do not mistake, the Apostle means by the plerophory or full assurance of faith.1945, John Brazier Green, John Wesley and William Law, page 173. From the entry plerophory
  • A promise of achievement always withdrawn; an assurance of dignity and ease for ever vanishing over the skyline.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 154. From the entry nihilism
  • Full of assurance I marched out in front of the company of seventy and yelled: ‘Company! ’Shun!’ They all ‘’shunned’.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 103. From the entry 'shun
  • "Unfortunately," said Soames, "there's no such thing as luck in properly regulated assurance, as we shall find, or I'm much mistaken.1924 October, John Galsworthy, “The Mark Falls”, in The White Monkey, London: William Heinemann, published November 1924, →OCLC, part II…. From the entry get someone's goat
  • Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.2024 May 15, 'Industry Insider', “Labour's plan for the railway”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 68. From the entry mark
  • His penalty, though, bristled with assurance.2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian. From the entry liftoff
  • PIH is a supplier of onshore and offshore coating products, including weld induction heating services, anti-corrosion, infill, abrasion resistant, and flow assurance girthweld coatings.2024 April 20, Wikipedia contributors, “CRC-Evans”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry girthweld
  • And when the Great War is over, perhaps you will remember that I chose to help, with no promises or assurances from any of you.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry zag

Meaning of assurance

  1. noun The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
  2. noun The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
  3. noun Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

Full definition of assurance

Questions about assurance in a sentence

How do you use assurance in a sentence?
Assurance is used as a noun. For example: “His assurance is intolerable.”
What is a short sentence with assurance?
“His assurance is intolerable.”
What does assurance mean?
Assurance means the act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.

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