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  • The raptor continued to make choking sounds, punctuated by intermittent loud shrieks.†  (source)
    intermittent = stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  • On the map the lake was called Intermittent.†  (source)
  • The following day, their intermittent screeches were peppered with leaps across the furniture.†  (source)
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  • McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months, spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company of other vagabonds he met along the way.†  (source)
    intermittent = stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  • Rains came intermittently, leaving the men sucking up every drop that fell into their rain catchers.†  (source)
    intermittently = in a manner that starts and stops at irregular intervals
  • 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)
    intermittents = interruptions in a steady state
  • 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)
  • I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.†  (source)
    intermittence = the quality of stopping and starting
  • These intermittent displays of panic and fury were resented by the populace, because the most terrible bad luck would follow.†  (source)
    intermittent = stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  • Through the broken window, the setting sun's light fell on the model, and the flying spheres intermittently reflected the light onto the rebel commander, like sparks from a bonfire.†  (source)
    intermittently = in a manner that starts and stops at irregular intervals
  • When intermittents recur, try to correlate them with other things the cycle is doing.†  (source)
    intermittents = interruptions in a steady state
  • 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)
  • Nearly pitch black and almost totally quiet, the street was lit only by the headlights from intermittent traffic that passed back and forth, ferrying the sick.†  (source)
    intermittent = stopping and starting at irregular intervals
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