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Example sentences for "certain distances"

  • Who is it that has fixed so many great luminous bodies to certain places of that arch and at certain distances?

  • The bones are divided at certain distances, but they have joints, whereby they are set one within another, and are tied by nerves and tendons.

  • The windows, opened at certain distances, light the whole building.

  • A certain quantity of meal-powder, without any mixture, put at certain distances, must be used, if it is required that these rockets should plunge down and again rise up.

  • Another mode is to roll cannon balls on a floor, on which is loosely nailed, at certain distances apart, strips of wood or lath.

  • At the end of every cross street, and at certain distances in it, are a kind of cross bars, with sentry boxes at each of which is placed a soldier, and few of these streets are without a guard-house.

  • The motion of these animals is no doubt generally in a straight line, or rather like that of an arrow, supposing it to change its direction at certain distances.

  • The thighs and legs of the infants were bound at certain distances by broad strips of cotton cloth, and the flesh, strongly compressed beneath the ligatures, was swelled in the interstices.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain distances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain cells; certain classes; certain destruction; certain directions; certain fishes; certain gentleman; certain line; certain localities; certain measure; certain objects; certain occasion; certain people; certain phases; certain pleasure; certain provisions; certain quantity; certain races; certain small; certain sort; certain spot; certain things; certain types; certain value; least have; slight change; various directions