Example sentences for: intermittently

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It has been 20 years since you left home, and we have been talking intermittently since then by telephone.

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

  • Matches are held only intermittently, however The Calcutta Cup Match, in early April, pits the Scots against their “auld” enemy — the English — and is a great spectacle.


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