intermittent

• Mr. Smith continued with his observations as he made his next surgical cuts and Don Giovanni played on Near the time of death, breathing will become strained, intermittent -- It's exactly what you're feeling now, as if each breath could be your last. —  Cat and Mouse
• His exertions had been intermittent, and he was chiefly known as a brilliant member of fashionable society, a peculiar favorite with women, and remarkable for his abstinence from the coarse debauchery which disgraced his patrician contemporaries. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• But because renewables are by their very nature intermittent, they cannot have a huge impact unless -- and until -- we develop adequate energy storage technologies and drastically improve our fragile electricity distribution network. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Sometimes it was intermittent, and came down in devastating floods. —  Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication
• At first this is intermittent, appearing during work and returning when the horse is at rest. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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