alternately

Example Sentences

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Gary Gunn’s alternately delicate and lush musical score lends lyricism to scenes that often burst with barely contained anger and violence.

From Washington Post

And it is touching watching her grapple with her conflicted emotions as Georg and Clément alternately please and frustrate her.

From Salon

It used to be more complicated — you had to alternately press on the person’s chest and give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

From New York Times

Yet in solos and duets — like the alternately hilarious and gorgeous “Agony,” sung by Gavin Creel and Joshua Henry, the score shines anew.

From New York Times

How has the girl survived for years in this ephemeral non-place that is alternately, fuzzily characterized as a void, a personal inventory of memories or another dimension?

From Los Angeles Times