alternately

Example Sentences

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Jeremy spent most of the walk back to his house thinking alternately about his conversation with Miss Priest and about how incredibly hungry he was.

From Literature

I alternately hated myself for ruining the one good thing I had and hated Olka for making it so easy to ruin.

From Literature

Two drummers were leaned against canoes, their drums held fast between their ankles, hitting alternately with the balls of their palms and the flats of their hands—Low, high; low, low, high, went the beat.

From Literature

Coal kept his eyes alternately on his phone and the landscape of New Jersey rolling past.

From Literature

Those “you’s” are alternately or simultaneously specific and universal.

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