How to Use surety in a Sentence

surety

noun

• As sureties, they will be liable in his place.
• But large-scale sales or any kind of surety that they’ll be achieved are a long way away.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2019
• Claims would be processed by the bond or surety provider, not FMC.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
• Chudhary's parents and cousin, who were present, would sign as sureties.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
• He was arraigned in a court in Chelsea and issued a $2 million bond or surety.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
• The bond can be paid through cash, a commercial surety, or a court program that requires a payment of 10% of the bond amount.
  — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Schoeff said charges were filed and a warrant was issued for one count of child seduction and $5,000 cash or surety bond.
  — Jessica Hice, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2017
• Larkin was ordered to put up two properties as surety on the $1 million bond.
  — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
• Baratov’s parents had offered act as their son’s sureties.
  — Rob Gillies, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
• The accused will continue to be detained until the court approves their sureties.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Her bail set at $4,000 cash surety, while he is ordered to be held without bond, according to court records.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2021
• Michelle de Joya’s Velma doesn’t have quite the confidence and surety of her more seasoned stagemate.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
• Friends and family offered up their houses as sureties on a $2 million bond.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 28 Aug. 2019
• The next major piece of the nuclear surety puzzle is people.
  — Michael Auslin, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
• Thoughtful in his words, Benjamin speaks with a surety uncommon in teens.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2021
• The five suspects were arraigned Tuesday at District Court and were released on surety bail.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Even while what is depicted onscreen veers wildly out of control, there is a sense of surety to the filmmaking that makes this one of the freshest movies of the year.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• The Scottsdale Unified school board members do not have surety bonds, and they are not required to do so under Arizona law.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
• The real Divine, Logan said with surety, would love its status.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
• Johnson was taken to the Bates County Detention Center, and bond was set at $9,000, cash or surety.
  — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
• To secure the bonds, companies pay a surety firm a one-time fee — typically 20% to 50% of the face value, according to Hoops.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 26 Apr. 2023
• In addition to providing more surety, a bill could reach further than a simple court rule change.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Bond for both women was set at $5,000 cash/surety, the prosecutor's office said.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
• Mom-and-pop bail companies are backed by large surety companies, which guarantee the full amount of the bond in exchange for a portion of the premium.
  — Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018
• Magistrate Mark Watson set his bail at $9,000 cash surety.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• And the decision to keep the identities of the sureties hidden from public view only exacerbates those challenges.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• Legal experts said there was little chance Santos would actually be detained even if his sureties were to back out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The lawyer, Joseph Murray, contended that Santos, 34, was willing to go to jail to protect his sureties’ anonymity, and asked that the judge allow them time to potentially withdraw.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Both face up to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder; both had bonds set at $1 million cash or surety, and both are slated to return to court later this month.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2024
• Clark says few contractors could afford the financial risk without any surety they would be licensed.
  — Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025