Example sentences for: certainties

How can you use “certainties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Defeat in World War I had shattered the rigid certainties of Berlin’s “Prussianness” and left the town open to radical adventures in social and artistic expression almost unimaginable in the older cultural capitals of Vienna, London, and Paris.

  • By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard.

  • Newsweek psychologizes that his parents' suicides caused his "clear longing for certainties, a need to be in control."

  • Australia's Sydney Morning Herald presented the weekend's events as "the logical conclusion to the late-20 th century drama which has been quietly corroding the old certainties of political power throughout the world's mature democracies.

  • It comes from somewhere else, from the non-fashion universe of eternal certainties and unbreakable cycles, where bodily sculpture is applied with finality to signal a fixed social and sexual identity.


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