Example Sentences

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You need a kind of secureness for that long journey — almost like an instinct.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

But the ground that Dante has won he holds with equal secureness.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

To the kitchen, then, they hurried, and found real comfort in its smallness and secureness.

From Prudence of the Parsonage by Hueston, Ethel

And now, though there is none of that sweetness of stolen fruits, none of that creeping insecurity of former readings, there is an undisturbing, quiet secureness that makes our books more living to us.

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge

A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.

From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold