to be sure

Example Sentences

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Once, to be sure that I got a story right, I shared an excerpt of my book manuscript with Greenspan.

From Barron's

Grandpa nodded his head and said, “Uh-huh, that’s what I thought you said. I wanted to be sure though. Are you sure it was a monkey?”

From Literature

This was a major own-goal, to be sure, but one could say that Starmer lay down with a dog and got up with fleas.

From Salon

The company that controls the Runcorn-Widnes crossing, Merseyflow, said people needed to be sure they had informed them if they changed the vehicle they had registered with its discount scheme.

From BBC

“That man with the beard. He…” I look back at the TV again, just to be sure, but how many men in Chicago look like Santa Claus with orange hair?

From Literature