fitfully
Example Sentences
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Fitfully in use since the 1950s, it was the title of the ensemble that played on John Barbirolli’s 1963 record of string music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
Fitfully and painfully — and with some worried prodding from Beijing — China is trying to reopen for business.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020
Fitfully but emphatically, the old polarities of the '60s could still reassert themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fitfully, the Government appears to be moving toward the incentive prescription.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fitfully now these flames, rising from some invisible brazier, or from some torch fed by it, fell upon half-naked forms of creatures mysteriously busy about some hidden task.
From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe
