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sporadically
[ spuh-rad-ik-uh-lee ]
adverb
- every now and then; at irregular intervals in time:
Ox-eye sunflowers bloom sporadically throughout the summer.
- here and there; in scattered locations:
Little candles, placed sporadically among the chapel pews, lit up people’s faces.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sporadically1
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Example Sentences
They can be ingested sporadically or used as a mixer throughout the night (though a can of Sprite seems to be the latest trick).
She squinted, blinked sporadically, and tilted her head, as if straining to wrestle answers from her brain.
The rally had been eagerly attended, was sporadically enthusiastic, and left almost no impression once it was over.
After all, al Qaeda and ISIS have sporadically fought with one another, and the Saddam regime is long gone.
One of the sisters had managed to hide her cellphone, and for the first few days they were able to communicate sporadically.
No Judeo-German litterateur has ever been able to make more than a scanty living, and that only sporadically, out of his books.
In mid-July of the same year they were calling sporadically from temporary ponds in the lower Motagua Valley.
Frosts occur sporadically on the Mexican Plateau, and in the winter snow falls on the highest mountains.
Some of them settled in other parts of the province, either together or more usually sporadically.
Objects of the Bronze age too have only been found sporadically.
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