"certain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At a certain juncture - like the gentle loll of flesh over the waistband of one's swimming costume - the two forces collide.
- Anderson supposes that "antiquity" was, at a certain historical juncture, the necessary consequence of "novelty".
- He did not shoot particularly well or dominate certain junctures of the second half.
- At certain junctures, however, Martin reverts to his Martian appearance, which is both upsetting and thrilling to O'Hara.
- And at certain junctures, he that guarded the couch would take his turn at constructing this magic, or he at the cave's mouth would do it.
- One of the puzzles of mass extinction is why, at certain junctures, the resourcefulness of life seems to falter.
- The lady assimilated my responses, revealing nothing herself, though it was plain at certain junctures that she disapproved of her son's conduct.
- In particular, Gilman investigates the constellations of medical, social, and political discourse that emerge at certain historical junctures.
- One is not in the least concerned as to what happens to any of the characters whose nonchalance during certain junctures is not a little absurd.
- The characters' "nonchalance during certain junctures" is still striking today, and must have seemed shockingly so 77 years ago.
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