Example sentences for: occasional

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

  • (Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts on which it is ostensibly based.)

  • The French people — despite occasional rumors to the contrary — welcome tourists and are eager to show off their country, their way of life, their traditions, and their beliefs; in short, their essential joie de vivre.

  • [The Times, 20 June 1988] There is probably something to be said in favour of the occasional use of rude language in drama for the sake of realism; on the other hand, in the real world rude language is often the resort of those who are unable to articulate their thoughts and emotions, and the presence of characters so afflicted is certainly dispensable in drama.

  • [The book is] pugnacious and angry to the point of occasional bitterness and sarcasm."

  • And the occasional "drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance"--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages.


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