Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an intermitting manner; with intermissions; at intervals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With intermissions; at intervals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With
intermissions ; atintervals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unidentified Woman: (as Fanny Burney) I began a scream that lasted un-intermittingly during the whole time of the incision.
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Unidentified Woman: (as Fanny Burney) I began a scream that lasted un-intermittingly during the whole time of the incision.
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I watched them intermittingly over 36 hours as the scenery changed from crowds of families to late night urban prowlers; from high noon to full moon (just about) - as they blossomed like flowers, though still and unmoving.
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I watched them intermittingly over 36 hours as the scenery changed from crowds of families to late night urban prowlers; from high noon to full moon (just about) - as they blossomed like flowers, though still and unmoving.
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Liz Cheney, Sen. Charles Grassley and Sen. Tom Coburn also refused to contest Corsi's allegations when appearing most recently on Lou Dobbs Tonight (where the host beat Glenn Beck's crying jag world record by intermittingly wailing and sobbing throughout the live broadcast concerning the alleged alien alien invasion).
Warren Holstein: Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary 2009
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Evan Connell wrote: The lights of the country club went out; streaks of lightning flickered intermittingly, illuminating a terrible cloud rushing toward them like a kettle of black water.
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Five flatscreen TVs lining the walls are intermittingly hidden behind retractable screens to avoid the sort of flickering "sports soup" you find at most venues of that ilk, he added.
Hockey Star Sean Avery Drops the Puck for Boozy Offseason at New Tribeca Bar 2009
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Five flatscreen TVs lining the walls are intermittingly hidden behind retractable screens to avoid the sort of flickering "sports soup" you find at most venues of that ilk, he added.
Hockey Star Sean Avery Drops the Puck for Boozy Offseason at New Tribeca Bar 2009
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Entries here will probably not likely be posted until the end of the week and outside of business hours, e-mail and other internet activity will probably occur intermittingly.
Archive 2007-09-01 The_Lex 2007
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Entries here will probably not likely be posted until the end of the week and outside of business hours, e-mail and other internet activity will probably occur intermittingly.
Dissatisfied with Comcast The_Lex 2007
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