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at short intervals

ADVERB
frequently
Synonyms
STRONGEST
again and again generally intermittently many times often periodically regularly time and again usually
STRONG
oft oftentimes ofttimes
WEAK
as a rule at regular intervals at times by ordinary customarily every now and then habitually in many instances in quick succession many a time much not infrequently not seldom ordinarily over and over recurrently spasmodically successively thick and fast very often
Antonyms
STRONGEST
rarely seldom
WEAK
infrequently not much uncommonly

Example Sentences

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Using a delicate magnetic caliper employed by violin makers to measure in millimeters an instrument’s walls and veneers, the conservators tracked the wood’s thickness at short intervals along the crack.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Gisotti explained that there were many people in line and the pope did want to spread germs as one person after another repeatedly kissed his hand at short intervals.

From Reuters • Mar. 28, 2019

To distract from their inability or unwillingness to reform, they instruct their citizens to experience elation and outrage at short intervals, drowning the future in the present.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018

The atmosphere appeared to be loaded with a thick vapour: the Sun was rarely visible, and only at short intervals appearing very obscurely behind a semitransparent substance.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor.

From "1984" by George Orwell