Sentence examples for which I surely from inspiring English sources

I gave my roommate several hundred dollars, without which I surely would have perished from hunger.

Patiently (I wasn't truly patient; I wanted to slit Wally open like a bulgy feed sack) and lovingly (which I surely was), I testified that I needed her the way hydrogen needs oxygen — she should know that, had known it for years.

There in the dining room are the Louis XV chairs and settee, the Aubusson carpet and the slightly kitschy hand-carved wooden candelabras, all set off by the stone urn covered in moss — which I surely picked up somewhere in my travels — and the ersatz Giacometti sculpture.

He wanted to write a book about aging -- The Virtues of Aging -- and he thought I could help him (which I surely tried to do).

But they are grateful to be someplace safe (and someplace with alcohol, which I will surely complain about at a later date).

Skipping the Sunday meal planning would have freed up that hour — which I would surely have then spent staring into the fridge and cabinet during the week, trying to figure out what to cook, but it would have felt like a free hour just the same.

Even in the midst of his own ordeal, his focus remained on other writers who continued to fight for literary freedom: But as well as fighting the fight, which I will surely go on doing, I have grown determined to prove that the art of literature is more resilient than what menaces it.

If I considered the logical foibles of it—"it" being a product of my own mind, which I control then surely I could consciously push it out?

The lamb then said, "Your Majesty, If you'd just hold your anger back And measure out my careful track You'd see I've merely come to drink In waters which I'd surely think Are twenty paces down from you, So I could not in any way Be doing harm as you would say".

If I considered the logical foibles of it – "it" being a product of my own mind, which I control – then surely I could consciously push it out?

To which I would add: our country surely did not know Hillary Clinton in 2008.