"certain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Looking back 50 years to the dawn of the cold war, a certain modesty is in order.
- A certain modesty, I suspect; an inspiration that affects us deeply without demanding that we direct our attention to its source.
- He would not have risked more if he had said twenty thousand; but a certain juvenile modesty restrained him.
- Was it a certain modesty that so attracted record buyers to the Cowboy Junkies?
- So I felt a certain modesty and discretion would make for better diplomatic results.
- Mr. Willen's design, on the other hand, bespoke a certain modesty and reasonableness.
- Yet you could argue, we suppose, that there would be a certain modesty in a house this size.
- Probably because of their terrible living conditions, they acquired a certain modesty, a sense of the value of music as something important and powerful.
- This should inspire a certain modesty on the part of those who draft such declarations.
- Of course there's a certain unexpected modesty to that attitude.
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