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Example sentences for "certain parts"

  • Strict regulations were also made for keeping secular visitors out of certain parts of the convent.

  • The chief efforts of the authorities were, however, directed not towards keeping certain persons altogether out of the nunneries, but towards keeping all visitors out of certain parts of the house and during certain hours.

  • This process, having gone on for thousands of years, has shoaled the ocean in certain parts, forming the so-called Banks of Newfoundland.

  • The forests of certain parts of Borneo seem to be alive with wild bees.

  • The gathering of edible birds' nests, built by a kind of swallow, is quite an industry, and is confined to the rocky-cliff sections of certain parts of the coast where cover abounds.

  • The farmers, in certain parts of the country, have had extensive losses from want of care and knowledge with regard to colchicum poisoning.

  • The common viper still abounds in certain parts of Great Britain, as, for example, on Dartmoor.

  • Petroleum is a general term for a mixture of hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, which are found naturally in certain parts of the world, and are in commerce under liquid and solid forms of various density.

  • The purple-coloured variety, or Datura fastuosa, is also common in certain parts.

  • To illustrate the cooperation of certain parts of the body.

  • The cells of gray matter are found all along the cord, but are grouped together in certain parts, notably in the cervical and lumbar regions.

  • In the above cases we have a natural tendency in certain parts to be rudimentary, and this under culture spreads either to, or from, the axis of the plant.

  • In some instances since European occupation, violent earthquake shocks have resulted in considerable elevations of certain parts of the coast.

  • This apatite, or phosphorite, is found in certain parts of the world in large masses; but as a rule, it only occurs in small quantities in most rocks.

  • The application of fish, not suited for other purposes, to the fields as a manure is a practice which has obtained in certain parts of the country for a number of years.

  • Granite, which is so abundant in certain parts of the north of Scotland, and which gives rise to the soils in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, is made up of a mixture of quartz, felspar, and mica.

  • In certain parts of the distribution of napi similar intermediates sometimes occur, and at one place (Moedling) they are so frequent as apparently to constitute a colony.

  • An egg for example on becoming adult develops in certain parts a particular pigment.

  • He has also himself made a valuable beginning of such an analysis and gives good evidential reasons for the belief that at least the red veining depends on a definite factor which also influences the size of certain parts of the plant.

  • Certain parts, as the ribs and the skull, are attached directly to the spinal column, while others are attached indirectly to it.

  • In the West of England to bite the first fern seen in spring is an antidote for toothache, and in certain parts of Scotland the root of the yellow iris chopped up and chewed is said to afford relief.

  • A custom which then existed in certain parts of France.

  • Jasmin occasionally varied his readings by singing or chaunting the songs which occurred in certain parts of his poems.

  • Miss Preston says this was a custom which prevailed in certain parts of France.

  • Pearls were then, as now, produced only in a very few places, principally in the strait between Ceylon and the mainland of India, and in certain parts of the Persian Gulf.

  • But the institutions of three other European nations were for considerable periods dominant in certain parts of the New World, and have left an impress that is even yet far from being effaced.

  • The sugar-cane, although it grew widely in the East, from India and China to Syria and Asia Minor, was successfully managed so as to produce sugar in quantities that could be exported only in certain parts of Arabia and Persia.

  • Yet, although not working as an organized body, the Baptists in certain parts of the country were unusually outspoken and effective in waging war on slavery.

  • Negroes in certain parts, however, were at first accepted in the congregations with the whites and accorded equal privileges.

  • Certain parts of Holy Scripture you think, (for reasons to yourself best known,) are not to be looked upon as inspired in the same sense as the rest of the volume.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain parts" 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:
    beaten whites; certain characters; certain class; certain days; certain death; certain degree; certain feeling; certain great; certain height; certain kinds; certain lady; certain laws; certain measure; certain periods; certain phases; certain proportion; certain rate; certain rules; certain seasons; certain sense; certain small; certain sort; certain things; certain young; loose sand; make fire