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Example sentences for "certain times"

  • He who cries "vermin powder," is more advanced than those who occupy themselves with Nature, seeing that she is a proud jade and a capricious one, and only allows herself to be seen at certain times.

  • Everyone has noticed that at certain times in the year the grass becomes wet in the evening and grows more so till the sun rises the next day and dispels the moisture, and this when no cloud is seen.

  • By cyclone we do not mean those cloud funnels commonly called by that name that form at certain times of the year in certain sections of the country and produce such destruction of life and property.

  • I opinionate it's moist perhaps, at certain times,' returned the man.

  • I used to compare this coach to some great monster that appeared at certain times to bear my friends away into the world.

  • The sinking fund is money set apart at certain times to pay the debts due by the government.

  • It is formed of a certain number of persons who are elected at certain times, by the people, and who meet to make laws that are necessary for the good of the state or country.

  • Coupon bonds are bonds with interest coupons or certificates attached to them, and bearing no name, but payable to any person who presents the coupons at the treasury at certain times.

  • I have likewise heard, that there grow certain trees upon the shore of the Irish sea, which carry a fruit like gourds, and that these fall into the sea at certain times, and are changed into birds called Bernacles.

  • Their shells they have from the sea at certain times, when they rise up to the surface, and the inhabitants throw branches of the cocoa nut tree into the water, to which the shells stick.

  • All the kinds of fishes which frequent those seas, swim towards the shore at certain times in such abundance, that nothing can be seen for a great way but the backs of fishes.

  • Another drill would be the massing of previously separated forces at a given place and time; still another would be the despatching of certain parts of the fleet to certain points at certain times.

  • But with relation to the moon, there is not the least reason to doubt, but that the regular returns of the paroxysms at certain times of the month, gave occasion to men to believe, that this disease was lunar.

  • But I am clearly of opinion, that it was owing to a red earth or ocre, which is frequently found in baths, raised up from the bottom at certain times by the rains, and mixing with the water.

  • Writing of Thelon river itself, the Inspector states in his report:—“At the lower end deer are very numerous at certain times of the year.

  • Musk-ox and deer at certain times of the year are very numerous.

  • We saw innumerable tracks though, and at certain times of the year large herds must frequent the shores of this river.

  • Each cultivator had an intricate system of small water-ways covering his land, into which he let water from the main canal at certain times.

  • But if the Sun, said La Foret, be the Source of Light, how happens it that at certain times it loses it?

  • I suppose they do take them off at certain times, but then they are not visible to the naked eye.

  • The only changes in climate which may have an appreciable effect are mainly those caused by the eccentricity of Mercury’s orbit, which carries him so near the sun at certain times and so comparatively far away at others.

  • These are their places and aspects at certain times, frequently recurring, and at such times always unmistakably distinguish them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain cases; certain cells; certain distance; certain districts; certain instances; certain kinds; certain line; certain members; certain moments; certain parts; certain percentage; certain provisions; certain races; certain respect; certain species; certain that; certain times; certain tree; certain type; certain value; certain village; destructive fire; faced about; far less; first captain; living being