alternately

Example Sentences

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Gary Gunn’s alternately delicate and lush musical score lends lyricism to scenes that often burst with barely contained anger and violence.

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The problem is how Fowler goes about it, which is in prose that is alternately sleepy and mawkish.

From New York Times

Sonya’s first-person narration begins urgently: We see her alternately smothering and neglecting Tommy, staggering through life and subsisting on little, save as much white wine as she can carry home from the supermarket.

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Irritated at having her splendid isolation interrupted, Leda soon becomes entranced by the lithe creature alternately doting on and ignoring her toddler daughter.

From Washington Post

I found him alternately charming and funny and unpredictable and distant.

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