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Example sentences for "certain seasons"

  • Ivigtut is in latitude sixty-one degrees and twelve minutes north, its climate being severe at certain seasons, but comparatively moderate during summer.

  • At certain seasons he is one of the most odoriferous animals in creation.

  • At certain seasons of the year they celebrate their festivals, for which they have fixed days.

  • As this city was the most important and principal place in the kingdom, the Indians of the neighbourhood were assembled at certain seasons of the year to clean the streets, and perform other duties.

  • In Catholic countries, the discipline of the church requires a meagre diet at certain seasons, and as fish is not flesh, there is a great demand for that article of food at those periods.

  • At certain seasons of the year no part of it would appear formidable to such earnest and determined devotees as the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims.

  • In the clear Cotswold atmosphere very brilliant meteors are observable at certain seasons of the year.

  • The Cotswold women obtain employment in the fields at certain seasons of the year; though poorly paid, they are usually more conscientious and hard-working than the men.

  • A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.

  • Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.

  • At certain seasons of the year the temperature of this cold oceanic current is, in the tropics, only 60 degrees, while the undisturbed adjacent water exhibits a temperature of 81.

  • It is supported by the influx of rich and poor pilgrims from all parts of the country, whose presence gives its local trade an impetus, at certain seasons of great amount, and more or less at all times.

  • The bed of the river showed that at certain seasons it must be at least half a mile in width, but it was a meagre stream when we crossed it that bright and sunny February day.

  • The sides of the mountains are very steep, and the torrents of water which roll down their sides at certain seasons appear to carry with them vast quantities of the loose stone into the river.

  • Columbia by land at certain seasons, most probably when they are confined to their winter harbour.

  • In southern California at certain seasons of the year the inhabitants are afflicted with what they call a desert wind that blows from the heated regions of Arizona toward the Pacific Ocean.

  • These currents are as regular at certain seasons of the year as the land and sea breeze.

  • At certain seasons of the year and in certain localities it is not uncommon to have wonderfully beautiful displays of coloring upon the skies and clouds at sunset.

  • As stated earlier, rain does not fall in India at certain seasons of the year for periods of from five to nine months, and water is water during most of that time.

  • If the inhabitants are so fortunate as to take on a few pounds of flesh at certain seasons, they lose that much, and generally more, from fever and ague at another season.

  • Whales, like wild fowl, migrate at certain seasons to some particular part of the great water expanse, and return again the succeeding year.

  • Large ships can travel on the Yangtse in certain seasons of the year as far inland as Hankow, 600 miles from the delta.

  • Seals frequent this coast at certain seasons of the year, and penguins are also abundant.

  • Seals and whales frequent it at certain seasons.

  • The conditions are more favorable near the equator, since, although at certain seasons of the year there are very severe storms in these regions, yet there are quite long periods when the air is almost entirely free from winds.

  • They do occur, however, most frequently in certain parts of the world, at certain seasons of the year and at certain hours of the day.

  • At certain seasons an irresistible impulse brings the two sexes together.

  • Besides the cells, there are found at certain seasons a larger sort of vesicle, readily distinguished from the others by their size, and the irregularity of their distribution, which are destined to contain and maturate the ovules.

  • To them also is due the red or green layer of colouring matter found in ponds and tanks at certain seasons.

  • They inhabit the seas of temperate and northern regions; ascending the rivers at certain seasons, and, in some instances, living exclusively in the great rivers and watercourses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain branches; certain breeds; certain distance; certain kinds; certain lady; certain length; certain limit; certain order; certain part; certain persons; certain places; certain proportion; certain resemblance; certain sense; certain stage; certain standard; certain substances; certain temperature; certain type; certain types; certain value; certainly very; certainly would; large doses; least five; little else