sporadic

This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails.

The chanting—so much a part of protests here for the past 100-plus days—was sporadic through Monday night.

I left Lebanon in June 2012, but we kept in sporadic touch via Facebook.

Sporadic riots and fires did break out later during the festival.

Since then there have been a few sporadic accounts of what happened.

Then a silence ensued, broken at first by sporadic and staccato remarks, then becoming as dense as the silences of the night.

Then sporadic rumours began to creep about, and the atmosphere became charged.

In the Third Culture Epoch there was found “copper, with sporadic appearance of low percentage of tin.”

Three times the old blood-feud had broken into sporadic outbursts, and three men had been shot.

The other two are genuinely new creations, if we except certain sporadic beginnings that occur in the transitional culture.