intermittent
Example Sentences
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As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.”
The cool, breezy overcast day also led to intermittent track closures for rain showers.
From Seattle Times
Instead, due to their peculiar form of mechanical linkage, PCs exhibit intermittent dynamics, with occasional exchange of the two rings as they slip through each other, a pattern the authors of the paper call slip-tumbling.
From Science Daily
Showers and thunderstorms are forecast across the state through Friday and are expected to be intermittent and only severe in isolated areas.
From Los Angeles Times
Radar data sites for the National Weather Service experienced “an intermittent network outage” over the course of four hours, according to Michael Musher, a meteorologist and spokesman for the service.
From New York Times
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