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Sure enough   /ʃʊr ɪnˈəf/   Listen
Sure enough

adverb
1.
As supposed or expected.
2.
Definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely').  Synonyms: certainly, for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, surely.  "She certainly is a hard worker" , "It's going to be a good day for sure" , "They are coming, for certain" , "They thought he had been killed sure enough" , "He'll win sure as shooting" , "They sure smell good" , "Sure he'll come"






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"Sure enough" Quotes from Famous Books



... that's sure enough," said Mr. Weston, with a chuckle, which Randy heard on her way up the stairs ...
— Randy and Her Friends • Amy Brooks

... see, Maud, those kittens were into everything and over everything most of the time. Four of 'em had got in here early afore I came downstairs that day and had been playin' hide and hoot amongst my paint pots. They was green in spots, sure enough, but I had my doubts as to its bein' ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln

... editions of the 'Journal' is instructive, as giving some idea of the development of his views on evolution. It does not give us a true index of the mass of conjecture which was taking shape in his mind, but it shows us that he felt sure enough of the truth of his belief to allow a stronger tinge of evolution to appear in the second edition. He has mentioned in the Autobiography that it was not until he read Malthus that he got a clear view of the potency of natural selection. This was in 1838—a year after he finished the ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... on. She started to run, but I was too quick for her, and got her by the tail and hung on, thinkin' that maybe she would take me out of the woods. On we wint, like an ould country steeple chase, till, sure enough, we came out to a clearin' and a house in sight wid a light in it. So leavin' the ould cow puffin and blowin' in a shed, I wint to the house, and as luck would have it, whose should it ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard

... alkaline for the growth of plants you can demonstrate that fact by experiment, or if it is capable of being used by the application of gypsum, that also can be determined by experiment and noting the behavior of the same plants afterwards. It is rather a slow process but it is sure enough. ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson


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