Example sentences for: intermittently

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

  • "[L]ike Beckett written for soap opera," says Lyons; its "sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose" seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon.

  • "[T]he most far-ranging, information-rich analysis of our seismic racial shifts since Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma of 1944," says Jim Sleeper in the Wall Street Journal . In the New York Times Book Review , however, Nicholas Lemann says, "To assume the Myrdal mantle means speaking in a calm, clear, generous voice, but America in Black and White does this only intermittently.

  • By contrast, Clinton appears intermittently in decidedly presidential footage.

  • When this was obtained, doses were reduced and sedation was continued intermittently with the documentation of the level of consciousness, comfort, eating, drinking and communication skills.

  • The result is this hodgepodge of distracting literary techniques that are only intermittently effective and mostly deeply distracting from, even destructive to, his principal goal.


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