intermittently

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Shots were now heard intermittently, and wounded men came back, telling, as wounded men will, contradictory stories.

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  • A few random orange blossoms scattered across the silk intermittently, as if blown by gusts of wind. —  EmbracetheNight
  • Saxon Graff, English Cunningham had to pick up his physiognomy from the distance, intermittently, as they could. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Even though the strokes of genius would manifest intermittently, all such individuals would receive the permanent rating as geniuses. —  Prodigal genius - Tesla Biography
  • He beat against the hull intermittently, asking about lungs Can escape with submarine lung," Monk replied, "if you clear hatch Doc crawled to the hatch. —  146 - Cargo Unknown
  • He returned to his lodgings only intermittently, therefore, since he was often ‘on the road’. —  No Winding Sheet-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 65
 

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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