alternately
Example Sentences
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Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
The result is alternately charming and clashing — why, I wondered, isn’t the animation done in a 1970s style to better complement the film?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
But she felt whole universes burst behind her vision, making it alternately light, then dark, then light, then dark.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
