How to Use alternation in a Sentence

alternation

noun

• This alternation of cuts gives rhythm, radiance and depth to the tiara.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• Miller thinks the brain is juggling the items being held in working memory one at a time, in alternation.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 9 June 2018
• If the pieces do well at the stores, the owners will ask for more the next year, or one with certain alternations, depending on what customers are saying.
  — John Tuohy, USA TODAY, 21 May 2017
• That jersey will also feature an all-black collar, the lone alternation to that look.
  — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• And that is just the start of the significant alternations coming before the 2023 season.
  — Austin Knoblauchassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Doerr likes to start in medias res, and then to go back to the origins of his stories and work forward again (or forward and backward and forward again, in alternation).
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nunes disagreed, and his staff described any changes as minor edits or alternations requested by the FBI and Democrats.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• In contrast, the alternations that the UCSF team identified were precisely aligned with every other cycle of the theta rhythm.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• Topped with pineapple, ribbons of raw onion, cilantro and salsa taquera, his al pastor needs no alternation.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• The group-solo alternation works best before a section in which Aparna enacts a poem about being abandoned at the seaside.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2022
• Nowotny and his team have found that separable odors aren’t perceived at the same time; rather, the coffee and croissant odors are processed very rapidly in alternation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
• That alternation began when one man threw a brick into the windshield of another man’s parked Cadillac, Iredell County deputies said.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2017
• Well, that our minds swarm with dreams and fears, sometimes in alternation, sometimes overlapping in complex textures.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• There’s laughter and passionate debate and easy alternation between the two.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Zinke visited several of the monuments he was asked to review and announced in advance of the August report to Trump that some required no alternations.
  — Bartholomew D Sullivan, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2017
• The Beijing auto show, held every other year in alternation with the Shanghai auto show, has proved a fairly good lens through the years for focusing the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economy.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• The World in a Selfie is occasionally disjointed, but this alternation between objects of inquiry is also part of its charm and provides us with a sense of tourism’s broad reach.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• The objective of the study was to evaluate in humans the effect of disruption of habituation by alternation between foods in a meal.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2013
• That push and pull, like the alternation of clarity and opacity in his biography, also haunts his pictures.
  — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• There were a few accidental double stops in the faster passages that involve rapid alternation between strings, and notes on the C string occasionally sounded raspy.
  — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2017
• Or is that an alternation permanently to the way you guys are incorporated?
  — Meghann Farnsworth, Recode, 7 Apr. 2018
• The study found that any alternation to the Cupid's bow resulted in the narrowest margin for artificial appearance.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 12 Apr. 2017
• The formal structure is modelled on the basin-and-range topography of western North America, with its relentless alternation of mountain uplift and desert flats.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• The team suspects this odd trait is a product of H. salminicola’s extreme lifestyle, which involves alternation between two hosts—fish and worms—both environments lacking in an abundance of fresh air.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• Other conditions include screening of mechanical building components from public view and alternations to spacing and height, to preserve sight lines to and from the bridge.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2018
• The line might not have so strongly suggested our hero’s wandering eye without Schubert putting dilemma into sound with a quick alternation between major and minor.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Image In land vertebrates, or tetrapods, walking is partly characterized by this left-right alternation as well as rhythms of extending and flexing.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• But among the very real hazard of a nuclear alternation were some inaccurate details.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2018
• Banded iron formations showing the alternation between iron-rich (red) and silica-rich (white) layers.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
• But in a democracy, a workable regulatory system needs to be able to survive the regular alternation of parties in power.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018

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