fitful

How to use fitful in a sentence

Meanwhile, Mikhail had had several fitful starts before he finally rebuilt his career as an entrepreneur.

After months of fitful supply, India’s Covid-19 vaccination program has finally reached a happy momentum.

Every day we spent 16 hours on small dugout canoes and then got eight hours of fitful sleep on the deck of a Melanesian sea craft.

It was still raining—a gray day with fitful showers that never entirely ceased but only varied in intensity.

Down below there are only fitful puffs now and then, telling of something else in store.

In the fitful firelights gleam they could see three shadowy figures crossing the creek.

In the soft wind the myrtle rustled faintly, and on the roses at our feet the dew-drops glinted in fitful splendor.

I hope he slept better than I did, for my own night was a series of fitful, restless tossings.

For the little girl looked very pale and delicate sometimes, and her appetite was fitful.

ROBIN REDBREASTMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH

A moment more and the storm closed in again, with one of its fitful gusts, only to clear at last and to leave them face to face.

THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985