Sentence examples for for a certain strain of from inspiring English sources
For a certain strain of bookmakers, the low-grade manic lifestyle is part of the allure.
For a certain strain of stand-up, dating to Lenny Bruce, it's essential to talk about what's taboo.
Whether you find its dual resolution hopelessly pretentious or profound depends on your tolerance for a certain strain of Gallic sentimentality that takes itself more seriously than it lets on.
Dropped by a handful of people, who disseminated it in Lebron James-like clouds, it minimized friction on the floor, making it possible for a certain strain of dancer to spin and slide and twist with ease.
But for a certain strain of film snob (and I admit I'm one), all this talk of shooting on 70mm has us eager for Dunkirk like a One Direction fan yearning to see Harry Styles in fatigues.
Nowhere more so than in "The Average American Male," which, since its publication in 2007, has become an unofficial, if somewhat undercover bible for a certain strain of Xbox-playing, Maxim-collecting Gen Y males.
Life During Wartime, like its predecessor, is a brilliant diagnosis of a certain strain of American loneliness.
For more than a generation, nudity, pain, grueling endurance tests and even bloodletting have been elements of a certain strain of performance art, one Ms. Abramovic helped pioneer.
But was it racist for ridiculing a certain strain of macho black culture?
In April, an attack seeming to originate in China used Google to probe the Web for sites vulnerable to a certain strain of SQL injection, targeting more than half a million pages and infecting them with malicious software.
