How to Use alternating in a Sentence

alternating

adjective

• People will also have alternating chills and sweats, and body aches.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• The pattern is less bothersome when used in flooring because the alternating zigzags are all the same color.
  — Elizabeth Mayhew, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• That’s where this alternating suitcase deadlift comes in.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 19 Dec. 2018
• When two teams are tied at the end of regulation in an elimination game in the World Cup, the outcome of the game is decided with five alternating penalty kicks—and more if necessary.
  — Allen St. John, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
• Down center of baking pan, arrange a strip of 8 alternating slices of vegetables over piperade, overlapping so that ¼ inch of each slice is exposed.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
• Currently, fire crews and EMS crews have alternating schedules.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 26 Dec. 2019
• These dual quests are detailed in more or less alternating chapters, through multiple characters’ points of view.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Lane closures will be alternating and are expected to last 15 to 20 minutes each and will be coordinated with the Texas Department of Transportation.
  — ExpressNews.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Per the study, a set of parallel trackways exhibiting an alternating gait was likely left by relatives of the modern loggerhead turtle.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2019
• Ions enter at one end and are shuffled along through alternating regions where they can be held for storage or hit by lasers that perform qubit manipulation operations on them.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• While the festival has offered two alternating programs of plays in the past, there are fewer contest winners this time around and they’ll be consolidated into one program suitable for audiences of all ages.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• As the road trip progresses, certain chapters narrated by Felipe grow almost nauseating — the risk (and perhaps the purpose) his frenzied prose — but the alternating narration serves its role quite well.
  — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Exhibits in the back room explain how alternating wet and dry seasons in the Mesozoic swampland created ideal conditions to preserve prints (but not bones) in the shorelines that ultimately hardened into rock.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• But beyond just the facial expression, the meme is now used in another specific way: repeating phrases with alternating capital letters.
  — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
• Trump combined toothless belligerence with economic sanctions designed to destroy Iran’s economy and weaken its regime, similar to his approach to North Korea but without the alternating eruptions of insult and bonhomie.
  — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• Researchers have found mysterious, unexpected alternating currents going through Jupiter's atmosphere, very similar to what is seen on Earth.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2019
• Felipe and Iquela, the novel’s second protagonist and alternating narrator, are childhood friends from Santiago, Chile, raised in the aftermath of Pinochet’s military dictatorship.
  — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Both men battle to develop the predominant electrical current (direct or alternating, respectively).
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
• But recently, people have started using alternating capital letters to express a different kind of intonation: mockery or exasperation.
  — Zachary Jaggers, Quartz, 26 Dec. 2019

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