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Howard Hughes lived in the hotel off-and-on for thirty years, reserving several of their bungalow-style suites at a time.

We filmed it off-and-on over the course of a few months earlier this year.

Miss Charlotte's temper is past all the last few weeks, she is that off-and-on and changeable like and spirity.

If he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off-and-on—the same— He done his level best.

The mate answered in the negative and advised proceeding under half sail and standing off-and-on till daybreak.

And it puzzled folk that the rivalry of the two men should be bound up in a curious off-and-on sort of intimacy.

There was a subject to which I had given some years of off-and-on study.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to off-and-on, such as: alternately, at irregular intervals, fluctuating, hardly, infrequently, and intermittent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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