Sample Sentences forintermittent (editor-reviewed)
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The rain was intermittent throughout the afternoon.intermittent = stopping and starting at irregular intervals
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She experienced intermittent back-pain.
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For long ago he had wisely changed to sneakers when strolling at night, because the dogs in intermittent squads would parallel his journey with barkings if he wore hard heels, and lights might click on and faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure, himself, in the early November evening. (source)intermittent = irregular (not in a consistent pattern)
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Nadia did not feel like sleeping, and SO she took a shower, the water chilly because of the intermittent gas supply to her boiler. (source)intermittent = sometimes stopped
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The raptor continued to make choking sounds, punctuated by intermittent loud shrieks.† (source)
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And so I found intermittent work at the docks.† (source)
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Intermittent snores from Felix didn't help.† (source)
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Rains came intermittently, leaving the men sucking up every drop that fell into their rain catchers.† (source)
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By these means Elnathan had acquired a certain degree of knowledge in fevers and agues, and could talk with judgment concerning intermittents, remittents, tertians, quotidians, etc. In certain cutaneous disorders very prevalent in new settlements, he was considered to be infallible; and there was no woman on the Patent but would as soon think of becoming a mother without a husband as without the assistance of Dr. Todd.† (source)
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In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above all, intermittences of hope.† (source)
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I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.† (source)
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Residents heard the helicopters, the intermittent explosions, and gunfire.† (source)
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Hiro can see the red light flashing intermittently, not following any particular pattern or rhythm.† (source)
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When intermittents recur, try to correlate them with other things the cycle is doing.† (source)
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One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when it was least expected.† (source)
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Dribbling out a sad intermittent trickle and groaning as though the process causes him torment.† (source)
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