How to Use insure in a Sentence

insure

verb

• We insured our house against fire and flood damage.
• They take great care to insure the safety and security of their home.
• This policy will insure your car against theft.
• We hope that careful planning will insure success.
• I found a company that will insure my car for less than I've been paying.
• She had difficulty finding a company that would insure her.
• The car was not insured, and Cook did not have a license at the time of the crash.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Although he was insured through Nerds on Call, the costs for his care still added up.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2019
• The cost to insure sovereign debt from default dropped the most in a month.
  — Christine Jenkins, Bloomberg.com, 28 June 2017
• Even for those who are insured, there are still endless hoops to jump through.
  — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 21 July 2015
• Maine, meanwhile, is the cheapest place to insure your vehicle in the U.S., at a cost of just $925 a year.
  — Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
• In Africa few farms are insured, so there is less pressure.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
• Pero’s house was insured, but the Daneaus gave up their insurance when the costs got too high.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2024
• Tourism will likely take a hit, and the cost of insuring the movement of goods will go up.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• First, how long will the cheese take to deliver, and how will it be shipped to insure freshness?
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Those on the front line cannot insure themselves against the climate crisis.
  — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• In that time the juices will redistribute, helping to insure moist meat.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 12 July 2020
• Slaves were bought and sold, insured, rented or leased, lent, willed and used to settle debt.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2019
• There are other ways to insure against a crash than buying bonds.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• So are the tens of thousands of farmers whose crops were not insured and were lost to flooding last year.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• So the onus is on the consumer to read the fine print and independently insure their items.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The ceremony was held at 8:30 a.m., to insure that the Russians didn’t beat them to it.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• State Farm insures roughly one in five homes statewide.
  — Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• She’s insured her vocal cords and legs for a cool $70 million!
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
• The struggle to insure their homes and businesses is not new for Cedar Keyans.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2024
• But the bank’s stock price has rebounded in the past two days and the cost to insure Credit Suisse’s bonds fell too.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• The state was one of the few where the number of insured increased this year even as federal numbers dropped.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The homeowner must insure the structure, something the renter doesn’t have to do.
  — Jim Probasco, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Camille was the very smart widow who led the company through the turbulent 1930’s, and insured its success into the future.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Making that even more painful is that most of the damage - 95% or more in Helene's case - was not insured, putting victims in a deeper financial hole.
  — CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024