Sentence examples for certain would from inspiring English sources

His verses, he was certain, would make him famous.

Spader wanted to be in a show he could be pretty certain would run and run.

ATTENTION immediately shifted to Merrill Lynch, which many were certain would be the next to topple.

What I – and many others, I'm certain – would like now, more than ever before, are some firm answers.

Antonescu based his foreign policy on an alliance with Germany, which he was certain would win the war.

The bombing, they were certain, would last one night, and the West would dab its forehead and fly home.

I made him promise not to tell Kristin and George, who, I felt certain, would hate us: who wants to live with a couple?

Overheard in the Grosvenor Bar, on lower Fifth Avenue, a feminine voice lifted more in anger than in sorrow: "That was one marriage I was certain would last.

Relax the exclusion criteria that ban certain would-be donors?

But certain would-be collaborators have been turned away, he said.

The statement means that the die has a certain 'would-be'; and to say that the die has a 'would-be' is to say that it has a property, quite analogous to any habit that a man might have".