alternately
Example Sentences
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Before the Punic Wars, Carthage alternately supported and clashed with the Sicilian city of Syracuse, ruled by the tyrant-king Agathocles from 317 B.C. to 289 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
“Christy,” an alternately exuberant and disturbing biopic, charts her path from that moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Jeremy spent most of the walk back to his house thinking alternately about his conversation with Miss Priest and about how incredibly hungry he was.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
