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
The girls were full of curiosity, but they dared not intermit their work, for everything had its allotted time.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
Hence some fevers perfectly intermit, the stomach recovering its complete action after the torpor and consequent orgasm, which constitute the paroxysm of fever, are terminated.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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
General Scott, nevertheless, though equally anxious to terminate the conflict, did not for a moment intermit his military vigilance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
