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from The Century Dictionary.

  • At intervals.

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Examples

  • By day he cooked as well, and, in the betweenwhiles, helped Anson in the building of the boat beside the torrent as the green planks came down.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • "Do thou harness whichever I fling thee, and betweenwhiles protect the team."

    WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS 2010

  • It is something beyond the compass of your thinking, inasmuch as it is yourself; but is it not of a higher spirit than you had dreamed betweenwhiles, and erect above all base considerations?

    Lay Morals 2005

  • She would regularly change the ice, or the cooling spirit, on his head, and would keep her ear at the pillow betweenwhiles, listening for any faint words that fell from him in his wanderings.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • And betweenwhiles he has grudgingly allowed himself to be wooed by Sasha and his outriders.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • He's worse now; I think he forgets betweenwhiles what was said the last time they looked.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • Horieneke sat demurely in the middle, next to Doorke, with uncle and aunt on either side and, lower down, father and all the children: mother had to keep moving to and fro, waiting on them, snatching a mouthful now and again betweenwhiles.

    The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

  • By day he cooked as well, and, in the betweenwhiles, helped Anson in the building of the boat beside the torrent as the green planks came down.

    Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

  • At election times they do service for men high in authority; betweenwhiles they thrive on the bickerings and feuds among the despoilers.

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Iki, breathing every now and then a long quivering sigh and forgetting to breathe betweenwhiles, held on tightly with both hands.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

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