Example sentences for: sporadically

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

  • The opposition army mainly consists of separatists from Shaba and Kasai provinces in East Zaire and supporters of the original post-colonial government, who have battled Mobutu's army sporadically since the dictator's ascent.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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 contrast, the predicted amino-acid hydroxylases of the EGL-9 family are seen sporadically, in single copies, in certain bacterial lineages such as V. cholerae and Ps.


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