unassured
Example Sentences
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The passing mention of “civil war” is I believe an unnamed reference to the 1786 Shays’ rebellion which reminds us even from Justice Story’s 1837 vantage that our nation’s continued existence has often been unassured.
From Forbes ● May 12, 2015
The first act, however, afforded her so little scope for acting, that she left the stage unassured of her own success.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
I felt unassured in regard to my condition, and was half disposed to believe that I was still asleep and imagining horrors!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added "I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
You enter the realm of death and the slain earth's dust alone sleeps beneath your unassured feet.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
