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  • She was getting backaches again and sleeping episodically and it hurt to sit in a chair sometimes.  (source)
    episodically = in intervals; not continuously
  • Spoils of Tom's travels and episodic seasons of success.  (source)
    episodic = occurring at irregular intervals
  • Afterwards there were half a dozen just episodic affairs, right up to the present.†  (source)
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  • He began, always, with a sustained tremolo from the violin part, which, for several bars, was unaccompanied, and filled all the foreground; until suddenly it seemed to be drawn aside, and—just as in those interiors by Pieter de Hooch, where the subject is set back a long way through the narrow framework of a half-opened door—infinitely remote, in colour quite different, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light, the little phrase appeared, dancing, pastoral, interpolated, episodic, belonging to another world.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston was one of the episodical persons who form the padding of life.†  (source)
  • Fights occurred episodically, broken up by muscular waiters.  (source)
    episodically = at irregular intervals
  • He did this in an episodic way, very much as he gave orders to his tailor for every requisite of perfect dress, without any notion of being extravagant.†  (source)
  • Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she had misled her aunt.†  (source)
  • And sometimes I sat with her through the mass, the mass in English, what a stark thing it was, without murmur or reverberation, but still the best part of my week, and I took her arm and led her out of the church and she was not a small woman but seemed to be dwindling, passing episodically out of flesh—she felt like rice paper under my hand.  (source)
    episodically = noticed intermittently
  • In 1915-16 Anderson had begun to write and in 1919 he published the stories that comprise Winesburg, Ohio, stories that form, in sum, a sort of loosely-strung episodic novel.†  (source)
  • In an episodical way he had studied and practised dentistry, and with very flattering success, especially in many of the factory-towns along our inland streams.†  (source)
  • We can count on episodic market corrections, but we can't predict the timing.†
  • It's my favorite episodic television show.†
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