adverb
definition
Without fail.
example
slowly but surely
definition
Certainly, undoubtedly.
example
Surely, you must be joking.
definition
With confidence.
example
His feet were planted surely on the ground.
Examples of surely in a Sentence
Surely she would understand.
You surely did not expect to see that Asiatic capital.
Surely he should have known she would get suspicious.
Surely he must have noticed.
My dear Mr. Munsell, Surely I need not tell you that your letter was very welcome.
Surely he must know that spending so much time with her might prove uncomfortable later.
Surely it didn't take that long to tell him she felt abandoned.
Surely that doesn't have anything to do with whatever the court fight is about.
Surely she couldn't be expected to commute that kind of distance on a regular basis.
One hastens to southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely that is not the game he would be after.
Surely he had a simple checkbook file.
Surely Yancey wasn't involved in art theft as well.
They were expecting - as surely as if they were in her womb.
Even Maria had gone uptown for the parade and festivities, surely a thrill compared to the rural poverty of her homeland.
They say great rewards will now be distributed, and surely a pardon would be granted....
I surely deserve the comfort of a little friend to sooth my troubled mind.
Surely this wasn't a personal file.
Surely Sarah and Tammy weren't involved, but did they know?
Surely it will all end in nothing!
I understand when they have an emergency and you're handy, but surely they don't have emergencies all the time.
Surely Alex wasn't blind to the manipulation going on with intent to keep him in Texas.
Surely he doesn't make all the decisions.
Molly surely loves her mother but the relationship between mother and daughter is reversed.
Could you, in such a case, tell surely of any company of civilized men which belonged to the most respected class?
Surely you have time off as well, otherwise, how would you have time to come all the way out here.
He wasn't sure she had seen anything, or surely he would have accused her.
Surely she must feel bitter about that fact, and yet neither her voice nor her expression gave any indication that she felt animosity.
Surely Pete must have known...
Had this woman brought her child on this nocturnal visit, I'd have surely snatched her away.
Surely we shall all find at last the ideals we are seeking....
Surely Dr. Howe is wrong when he says, "A teacher cannot be a child."
But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell me.
Surely it couldn't be as bad as Giddon had indicated.
If the Indians were renegades, surely they wouldn't want to take the time to track only two people - not with the cavalry on their trail.
He could lie and tell them he was a police officer or sheriff and maybe squeeze some tidbit of information about recently released mom Patsy, but surely Fitzgerald would find out and tank his election ambitions, if those aspirations weren't already six feet under.
Surely Lori would have known the difference.
She must at least think she has or surely she wouldn't have shown up after all this time and started a fuss about something that we all settled long time ago.
I am surely damned.
Surely we cannot afford to ignore so omnipresent a human activity in the context of learning?
Surely, such control is the exact opposite of what the search engines should be looking for.
Come on, surely you can give a little taster!
As they had no wings the strangers could not fly away, and if they jumped down from such a height they would surely be killed.
If you hadn't happened to find the piglet, Eureka would surely have been executed.
But surely a pan that warns you if your house is burning down or your food will kill you has to be worth $200 to you.
Surely there are hearts and hands ever ready to make it possible for generous intentions to be wrought into noble deeds.
Surely they had other people who spoke Spanish - people familiar with the customer.
Surely he wouldn't have gone down there to help if he felt that way.
Of all people, surely Darcie should realize why.
Surely he couldn't have feigned the surprise on his face.
Surely his vocabulary included such a simple word.