intermit

Example Sentences

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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.

From Time Magazine Archive

The solemn child, who proved, at closer view, to have an unusual beauty of pink cheeks, blue eyes, and reddish hair, did not intermit his serious gaze at his fingers.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

He could intermit the action of a Parliament for a time, sending the members to their homes until he should summon them again.

From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Only in the early morning, and for an hour, or an hour and a half after lunch, did Claude intermit his labors.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner

The worthy bishop, who was certainly at any time more at home in the cabinet than in the church, did not intermit his toil or yield to discouragement.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn