Sample Sentences forascertain (editor-reviewed)
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A committee was formed to ascertain the level of public support for a new bike path.ascertain = find out (learn)
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Before we could act, we had to ascertain whether the rumor was true.ascertain = find out
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After consulting a tree to ascertain from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland. (source)ascertain = determine
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To ascertain the truth, we focus more intently on the screen. (source)ascertain = find out or learn
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Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam.† (source)
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Without knowing how far away the source was, it was impossible to ascertain its exact coordinates.† (source)
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Mr Lewis, so far as I could ascertain, had already retired.† (source)
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The eight ridiculous Dresdeners ascertained that these hundred ridiculous creatures really were American fighting men fresh from the front.† (source)
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The outstations in Kunar and across Afghanistan were intelligence depots for the surrounding areas, with operators ascertaining the viability of targets in their sectors, to judge if a certain reportedly "bad guy" really was a bad guy, and if so, how bad.† (source)
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But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.† (source)
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Guy Francon descended from his office once in a while, for no ascertainable purpose.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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At the start of the great heat, for some unascertained reason, the evenings found the streets almost empty.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unascertained means not and reverses the meaning of ascertained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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A bourgeois court of arbitration that decides questions of life and death, ascertains God's will, and ordains the course of history.† (source)
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I will contact Moscow at once to ascertain the facts.† (source)
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But, as the reader of this will have ascertained (if there ever is a reader) the idea of being Dragged Down holds no terror for me.† (source)
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Even though she was perfectly proportioned, she was short, and sometimes she jumped to reach things, but only after ascertaining that no one would see.† (source)
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