- present participle of alternate.
alternating
Example Sentences
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Alternating every two or three chapters, Ms. Seve and the actor Caleb Teaupa unfurl a blood- and brine-soaked epic set in and around the islands of long-ago Polynesia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
Alternating between fixer and developer, the resulting images, each as unique as every ovary bearing person’s experience, allude to the anthropological, biological, psychosocial, biblical, and celestial.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
Alternating periods of higher demand for products have also helped, with jet fuel recently sprinting higher as diesel fell off.
From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2023
Alternating squint is usually divergent, with short sight on one side, still convergent strabismus may occur under these conditions.
From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by Schweigger, C.
Vocabulary lists containing alternating
"Living Like Weasels" by Annie Dillard
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Shake It Up: Alter
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