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
Some of the higher-ups are dead sure you are Mr. Shei, and the whole town is on tenter hooks on account of the notices posted last night.
From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman