intermit
Example Sentences
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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then she must forgive, unconditionally; for it would never do to intermit all praying until somebody else should come to a right, mind.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
The solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.
From Old Crow by Brown, Alice
