alternation

Example Sentences

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“Some sort of alternation occurred which resulted in multiple shots being fired,” Golan told KTLA-TV.

From Los Angeles Times

The alternation between analytic calm and hysteria can be exhausting.

From Los Angeles Times

The variety of locations, the alternation of tone and predicaments as the series skips between threads, keeps it from becoming too emotionally, too existentially wearing.

From Los Angeles Times

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

"They have two legs, so they can have regular trousers, but their hip is very wide so you have to take that to the alternations shop too."

From BBC