Example sentences for: occasionally

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

  • Articles of Faith makes it abundantly clear that even the most decent people both sides have to offer--people such as Widdicombe and Lee who will occasionally talk to each other instead of merely hurling epithets--can find no real common ground on abortion.

  • He can't control his impulses, especially the libidinal ones; he has an unattractive tendency to blame other people for his problems; he has a terrifyingly effective gift for misleading and, occasionally, telling outright lies.

  • An upward deviation from ideal was occasionally observed at the lower concentrations, as the detection limit was approached.

  • She does recount the sexist pre-1950s research, which is occasionally hilarious (as when scientists were obsessed with testosterone, which they treated as the essence of masculinity) and sometimes tragic (as when hare-brained theories led to horrifying surgical procedures on women).

  • Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.


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