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synonyms for by fits and starts
- erratically
- fitfully
- haphazardly
- infrequently
- sporadically
- unevenly
- anyhow
- any which way
- at intervals
- by turns
- disconnectedly
- eccentrically
- helter-skelter
- in snatches
- jerkily
- now and again
- occasionally
- off and on
- out of sequence
- periodically
- slapdash
- spasmodically
- uncertainly
- uncommonly
- unmethodically
- unpunctually
- willy-nilly
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How to use by fits and starts in a sentence
With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINAll along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTJohn was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYThe sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThey were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGMr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThe merest acquaintance would have said something more emphatic than "I will, thank you; good-by," to such a request.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWORDS RELATED TO BY FITS AND STARTS
- any which way
- anyhow
- at intervals
- by fits and starts
- by turns
- disconnectedly
- eccentrically
- erratically
- fitfully
- haphazardly
- helter-skelter
- in snatches
- infrequently
- jerkily
- now and again
- occasionally
- off and on
- out of sequence
- periodically
- slapdash
- spasmodically
- sporadically
- uncertainly
- uncommonly
- unevenly
- unmethodically
- unpunctually
- willy-nilly
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.