Example sentences for: sporadically

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

  • Various other people drifted in and out of those meetings, which were held sporadically over the course of several months, but we three were the chief punters (as they say in Britain).

  • He studied at the Art Students League, taught sporadically, and exhibited with various networks of artists, including one group who called themselves--when one of their number left--"The Ten Who Are Nine."

  • In other places, with the exception of Easter Sunday and August 15 — important national holidays — they are held sporadically and advertised by way of the ubiquitous carteles (posters) stuck on every wall.

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."

  • The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.


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