dead sure

Example Sentences

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But about one thing Clo is dead sure: her place in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

I know for dead sure that’s not so.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

First, none of we economists know anything for dead sure.

From Forbes • Aug. 1, 2014

That's how I planned to end this piece, back when I sat on the bank overlooking the 14th hole on Sunday, dead sure that Jordan Spieth would win the U.S.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

Just to-day we were out on a run and, though I didn’t actually time it, I am dead sure there were stretches where we did as well as a mile a minute.

From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by Duffield, J. W.