alternately

Example Sentences

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Flippases such as MurJ move molecules by alternately exposing them to each side of the membrane without forming a permanent opening.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

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

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

Several nights later, I lay staring alternately at the block tower and the bedroom ceiling, trying to think of how to say I’m sorry to Maxie.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon