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Example sentences for "certain type"

  • And even for a woman "of a certain type" her position was exceptionally nerve-racking in war-time, going as she did by a false name.

  • Thus we see that the mesenchyme cells giving rise to legs may lie dormant for months or a year but will grow out when a certain type of substances, e.

  • Fortunately for the new occupant of The Trellis House, a certain type of prettiness gives its lucky possessor an extraordinary sense of assurance and tranquillity when dealing with the average man.

  • It's a little on the fantastic side, and so only suits a certain type of face.

  • I fear more from a certain type of Jew on Upper Broadway, than I do from the Jew of the Ghetto; even as I fear more from a certain type of over-ripe Americans than I do from this undeveloped peasantry.

  • A person trained to a certain type of life, taught to expect certain things, may find no need of other newer things.

  • Fear of a certain type is one of these things, as when one's knees knock together, the limbs become as it were without the control of the will, the heart flutters, and the voice is hoarse and weak.

  • And a certain type of intelligent people have an equally natural tendency to dismiss, without further worry, the traditional notions of the past.

  • Just as a certain type of eccentricity of action may be the precursor of mental disease, so a certain type of eccentricity of thought may be the forerunner of moral and spiritual disease.

  • Had Cynthia been a certain type of woman, she would have had all the men on her side and all of her own sex against her.

  • Honora took a good look at the famous Trixy, who resembled a certain type of military Englishman.

  • As I was saying, Victoria's enigmatical hopeless, although a French comtesse who wouldn't look at anybody at the baths this spring became wild about her, and a certain type of elderly English peer always wants to marry her.

  • To a certain type of cricketer runs are runs, wherever and however made.

  • There is a certain type of school batsman who considers that to force the game means to swipe blindly at every ball on the chance of taking it half-volley.

  • With a certain type of batsman a single is a thing to take big risks for.

  • There is a certain type of school batsman who is a gift to any bowler when he once lets his imagination run away with him.

  • The manager who is a keen, positive driver will get good results with a certain type of people in his organization, but only with a certain type.

  • This man can get good results from a certain type of worker, but he only irritates, frightens, and drives to sullen resistance other types.

  • They contained usually a few stone or bone implements and a certain type of pot with a hemispherical base.

  • Further, a certain type of man, whom we term the Prospector, is found living in no small numbers in most of these megalithic areas, as well as becoming a successful merchant at many of the sea-port towns of Europe.

  • It has already been stated that a habit is a tendency toward a certain type of action in a certain situation.

  • By carefully determining what always precedes a certain event, a certain type of happening, a scientist is able to predict the event.

  • This is a test of a certain type of inventiveness, namely linguistic invention.

  • A certain type of artist delights in shocking the bourgeois--a riot over a play gives him great satisfaction.

  • While human nature is what it is we will have always on the outskirts of every movement a certain type of political adventurer who is ready to transfer his allegiance from one party to another according as he thinks the time serves.

  • The utilization of part of the environment, instead of being an automatic response, has for an indispensable prerequisite a certain type of culture.

  • In order that certain traits be acquired, a certain type of organic basis is an absolute prerequisite; a chimpanzee or a bat is not able to acquire human culture through social environment.

  • Oh, I really must put you into one of my articles as a certain type of modern Australian.

  • I can see that you don't understand women--of a certain type.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain type" 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:
    baking soda; both legs; certain articles; certain bodies; certain classes; certain great; certain hour; certain length; certain limit; certain localities; certain other; certain points; certain portion; certain price; certain quantity; certain quarters; certain resemblance; certain respects; certain special; certain thing; certain things; certain tree; certain village; drawing nigh; where was; young specimens