alternation
Example Sentences
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The alternation between fly-halves continues with Zoe Harrison coming back in to start in place of Holly Aitchison.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Sitting on the chairs and toggling between resilience and collapse, in relay or alternation, they match the force of the electronically layered drums in Mikel Rouse’s prerecorded score.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
