intermittent
Example Sentences
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As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.”
The teeth showed clear chemical traces of intermittent lead exposure that stretch back nearly two million years.
From Science Daily
He has a civil rights practice, where he makes the bulk of his money, but said “payments are intermittent on those.”
From Los Angeles Times
The looping trail to Inspiration Point will be partially open, though it will have intermittent closures as trail work planned before the fire continues, according to State Parks.
From Los Angeles Times
While renewables produce cheap power when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing, their intermittent nature adds costs to the broader grid, analysts say.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
