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Example sentences for: fitfully

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

When this is not the case, public opinion tends to react fitfully, with many starts and stops.
Your mother has a computer; I don't, though I use hers fitfully.
He ponders the hopeful predictions of Francis Fukuyama that Western civilization is moving gradually, if fitfully, toward greater individual freedom.
Critics pour the love on thick: "Fresh as a Twinkie right off the assembly line, more welcome than a power failure during the State of the Union speech, fitfully 'Seinfeldian' in its pure, crazed hilarity … [it] could very well be the best new sitcom of the season" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). No laugh track, cinematic single-camera shooting, and an appealingly daffy family all add up to a fresh-feeling show.
I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.