How to Use uncertainty in a Sentence

uncertainty

noun
  • There is some uncertainty about the company's future.
  • He accepted the position without hesitation or uncertainty.
  • That uncertainty meant that the big throughline for the upfronts was the NFL.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Amid the uncertainty, gun sales spiked in Oregon in the past month.
    Gillian Flaccus and Lindsay Whitehurst, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Amid the uncertainties, there may be some winners from the law: hotels in the city and the state of New Jersey.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The fire and smoke may be gone, but they’ve been replaced by fear and uncertainty.
    Brooks Sutherland, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • That was around 2017, a year filled with fear and uncertainty.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The major uncertainty lies with how far north and west a nose of mild air coming from the south makes it.
    Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • There hasn’t been a meeting with this much uncertainty on how the Fed will act in quite some time.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Yet, amid the uncertainty, the Crimson Tide seem to be set at one position on that side of the ball.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For all the big names on the roster, the area where Cooper faces some uncertainty is the offensive line.
    Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 21 July 2023
  • The only caveat is there is A LOT of uncertainty in how the forecast will unfold later in the week.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Behind the scenes, the missing 39-year-old had stress and uncertainty.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This insight has become a sort of mantra for me in all the uncertainty that comes with making a movie.
    Ruben Östlund, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the market and not enough clients of mine are asking for this option for now.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There is uncertainty about it all even being able to go down.
    Jeremy Hallock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That uncertainty makes rooting for a guy like him so much fun.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Rather, our aim is to show where our estimate falls in a range of uncertainty.
    Diane Napolitano, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • With roles up for grabs and so much uncertainty, Hinch is just trying to worry about the moment.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And often, anger is only the mask fear and uncertainty wear.
    Joanne Frederick, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The war with Hamas has only deepened that sense of uncertainty.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
  • But, even in moments of grave uncertainty, people tend to chug along.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • As a team captain, Diggs had to lead his teammates through many days of fear and uncertainty.
    Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • When the world was faced with uncertainty my music offered solace to those in need.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Jed Hoyer and the Cubs faced some uncertainty in their pursuit of Seiya Suzuki.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The area where the storm came ashore remained within the cone of uncertainty for the full five days between formation and landfall.
    Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Established, legendary quarterbacks who have been in the NFL for a decade do not want to have to deal with that kind of uncertainty.
    The Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2023
  • After a week of uncertainty, the bodies of two missing Arizona men have been found.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The third schedule uncertainty, Wise said, is when the space station will have a port available to receive Dream Chaser.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The uncertainty is a lot higher this time than for Trump’s first term in office, given the size of the tariff threat, the magnitude of the trade imbalance.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024

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