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View synonyms for intermittently

intermittently

[ in-ter-mit-nt-lee ]

adverb

  1. at occasional or uneven intervals:

    This species of flounder spawns mainly during the summer and early fall, but may spawn intermittently throughout the year.

    In this parched landscape, water flows intermittently, with lakes and streams forming in the wet season and disappearing in the dry season.



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  • non·in·ter·mit·tent·ly adverb
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Example Sentences

Since Boyhood was shot intermittently over 12 years, did you have a good grasp over the quality of your performance?

In the meantime, the tribe intermittently dances around her—butts shaking and hands in the air, shimmying away the dark thoughts.

This went on for about five minutes intermittently, as I dealt with other officers inquiring about my job and ID.

Self-immolation has been around for centuries, having been intermittently practiced by protesting monks in the East.

Since the spring of 2010, the financial world has been intermittently paralyzed by euro fear.

I have placed in the above list several flowers that are intermittently fragrant, like the hepatica, or liver-leaf.

Thunder is heard intermittently, and from time to time the windows are shaken by the violence of the wind.

Hostilities continued intermittently until John of Castile died, without leaving issue by Beatrice, in 1390.

They had lain down on the platform near the iron railing which encompassed it, and Branasko was dozing intermittently.

It uplifts its voice about two hours before sunset and continues calling intermittently until some time after sunrise.

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