INSURE in a Sentence

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135 example sentences for INSURE, such as:

1. You can always claim on the insurance.
2. The insurance company is responsible for this case.
3. Your father took out insurance to cover the mortgage.
4. Buy an insurance policy that covers accidental damage.
5. You should claim the cost against the house insurance.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSURE
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insure
 v.  make sure or secure, specifically against loss by a contingent event; give or take insurance on
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
3  Meanwhile, since it is too late to prevent this tragedy, I am very anxious that I should use the knowledge which I possess in order to insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
4  Even if this lady should never recover consciousness, we can still reconstruct the events of last night and insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5  I came personally, Mr. Holmes, in order to insure that you would return with me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6  To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
7  The least injudicious or impatient movement on the part of David might betray them, and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
8  If Edgar Linton meets me, I shall not hesitate to knock him down, and give him enough to insure his quiescence while I stay.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  To insure an army being victorious in battle you must inspire it with the conviction that it is certain to prevail.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
10  Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
13  And then again, when they went to pay their January's installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if they had had the insurance attended to yet.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  The victim was an insurance agent, and he had lost a hundred and ten dollars that did not belong to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  Xerox is expected to use the cash to pay down debt from the insurance unit.
17  Sheila found some work as a secretary in an insurance company.
18  The new insurance rules speculate that the disabled for the public benefit are to receive more money.
19  Buy an insurance policy that covers accidental damage.
20  The insurance industry has produced its own proposals for universal health care.
21  The insurance company is responsible for this case.
22  The insurance will cover the costs of repatriating you and your family in the case of an accident.
23  You should be able to claim against the car insurance.
24  It is possible to make an insurance claim for any goods lost or damaged in transit.
25  You should claim the cost against the house insurance.
26  You can always claim on the insurance.
27  Ask an insurance broker to obtain some illustrations for you to compare.
28  If suggested improvements are not carried out, we have the right to suspend the insurance cover.
29  Your father took out insurance to cover the mortgage.
30  I'm looking for a travel insurance policy that will cover me for any eventuality.