All 9 Uses of
intermittent
in
The War of the Worlds
- At any rate, as the dusk came on a slow, intermittent movement upon the sand pits began, a movement that seemed to gather force as the stillness of the evening about the cylinder remained unbroken.†
Chpt 1.5
- And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops.†
Chpt 1.10
- Thick clouds of steam were pouring off the wreckage, and through the tumultuously whirling wisps I could see, intermittently and vaguely, the gigantic limbs churning the water and flinging a splash and spray of mud and froth into the air.†
Chpt 1.12
- The night was warm and still, and a little oppressive; the sound of guns continued intermittently, and after midnight there seemed to be sheet lightning in the south.†
Chpt 1.14
- These continued intermittently for the space of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams of the electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright red glow.†
Chpt 1.15
- Outside and very near was an intermittent, metallic rattle.†
Chpt 2.1
- These noises, for the most part problematical, continued intermittently, and seemed if anything to increase in number as time wore on.†
Chpt 2.1
- I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(intermittent) stopping and starting -- especially at irregular intervals