Sample sentences for INFREQUENT

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not frequent; i.e., not occurring at regular short intervals

I talk to my sister infrequently on the phone, usually at odd hours, and I seldom visit.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road

Jacques and I saw each other only very infrequently, and always in the most secret of settings... under the protection of the Priory.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
He hung to life by a decayed filament, a corpse lit by infrequent flares of consciousness.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
In the last hundred years, it had been used only infrequently.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The big infrequent drops of rain lanced down and splashed on the road, and as the truck moved along, the drops became smaller and closer.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
It was gravel on rock bottom, tortuous, but open, with infrequent and shallow downward steps.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
The expression on his soft, round Oriental face, however, showed that such intrusions were not infrequent, only unnerving.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
I thought of her infrequently.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by over-stimulating the mind.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Gradually, their visits became shorter and more infrequent.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Miss Stackpole gave one of her infrequent laughs.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
I imagine these infrequent meetings satisfied my father, Personally, I hadn't the least antipathy to him, only a little sadness of heart.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
She scarcely existed; her letters had become dull and infrequent; she had no wants and no curiosity.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
The gentle Anne makes infrequent appearances, and she's not about to let herself be shoved out the door so soon after she's arrived.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
Those big blue eyes and the luminous, infrequent smiles reminded her of someone she couldn't name.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
The only thing his parents had during those times were letters, which were infrequent at best.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
And why did she write so infrequently?
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The sobs became more and more infrequent, and at last ceased.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson

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