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
The problem is how Fowler goes about it, which is in prose that is alternately sleepy and mawkish.
From New York Times
Rachel Uchitel was sitting at a table in her Upper East Side apartment not long ago, alternately stoic and tearful, surrounded by hundreds of pages of legal documents.
From New York Times
In 2017 a navigational buoy in India powered itself with an oscillating water column system: waves alternately filled and emptied a partially submerged chamber, accelerating air into and out of the column.
From Scientific American
He alternately boasted about how far the country has come and predicted a hard road ahead.
From Washington Post
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