Example sentences for: occasional

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

  • Built by Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1603 for his occasional, reluctant visits to Kyoto (under imperial command), the castle was taken over by the Emperor Meiji after the restoration of 1868.

  • Farther south, the dry scrub-covered hills slowly give way to semi-desert, with an occasional grove of coconut palms playing the role of oasis.

  • That is not to mention the occasional Modern Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and Chinese transcription of an English, French, Italian, German, or African word, name, or place—and vice versa.

  • Duchamp's urinal was a pis aller after which there should have been silence, broken only by the occasional gurgle from the cistern.

  • 80, a hastily written occasional composition with amusing premonitions of Symphony No.


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