Sentence examples for certain afternoons from inspiring English sources

And on certain afternoons, several busloads of elementary school children converge on the room at once, banishing any tranquillity.

Madam Marta Becket can be found on certain afternoons drifting about the adobe colonnades wearing a black boa, gold hoop earrings, soft shoes and blue eye shadow.

ON certain afternoons in Country Club, a small waterfront neighborhood near the Throgs Neck peninsula in the Northeast Bronx, small groups of men congregate in kitchens for the beloved ritual of the sauce.

In fact, that smile inside the tunnel belongs — at least on certain afternoons — to a uniformed attendant named Carmella Davis, who spends her days inside a tiny, lighted booth beside the roadbed, waiting for an accident to strike.

At 17 he was apprenticed to an architect – it was too uncertain a future to risk becoming an artist – but his boss had released him on certain afternoons to attend drawing classes at Glasgow School of Art, housed as it was then in cramped rooms in Sauchiehall Street.

On certain afternoons, the crystal-lined room played host to lectures on apocalypse and house music-infused qi gong.

(The exception is certain Sunday afternoons, when the crowds become restive and the cooks become nervous).

On certain Saturday afternoons, a tidal surge moves quietly throughout the country.

She allows herself to "cheat" on certain Saturday afternoons with a cheese sandwich or an occasional piece of licorice.

And on certain weekday afternoons, after his colleagues had gone home, he'd usher a local family into his inner sanctum, collect $45 and pull back the curtain on how the system worked.

A passionate animist, I fervently nurtured relationships with the insidious and fickle landscape of my small life: the slope of a hill, the weight of the snow-laden holly branches, the honeyed light of certain winter afternoons, bending through an old window pane onto a chestnut floorboard.