Example sentences for: alternately

How can you use “alternately” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bill Bradley is alternately disagreeable and boring, according to an article.

  • The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)

  • As the Corporation has noted, the statutory language may be read alternately to require that (1) an alien must be physically present in the United States when the cause of action for which the recipient provides legal assistance arises; (2) an alien must be physically present only when legal representation is commenced; or (3) an alien must be physically present in the United States any time the alien is provided legal assistance from an LSC grantee.

  • Newspapers have bought both these spins, alternately praising and criticizing Microsoft's virginity, but accepting it as a given.

  • Pressures for some kind of change have been alternately encouraged and resisted as the state’s volatile political establishment has swung back and forth between conservatives and progressives.


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