fitfully

Example Sentences

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Soldiers executed air assaults, simulated missile shots across islands, navigated gulches and slept fitfully under trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

England flickered fitfully in Germany, reaching the final which ended in the familiar pain of defeat at Spain deservedly won 2-1.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

I couldn’t tell you much about his film career, except that I vaguely recall the near-Afro he sported playing John McEnroe in a movie that I fitfully watched on an interminable flight.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

That night I slept fitfully as temperatures remained high, and I had a headache.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023

Yezzan was burning with fever, squirming fitfully in a pool of his own excrement.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin