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• Telford played sounds to the students at intervals ranging from half a second to four seconds.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2010
• An inflated moon, tens of feet tall, glowed as the sun fell and thick smog began to fill the stadium at intervals: first blue, then white, and then blue again.
  — Waiss David Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
• You are then tested again at intervals during your stay.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• Soldiers fired back from the turrets of armored trucks parked at intervals within the perimeter.
  — Wesley Morgan, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
• All Stars is more or less a standard subscription, in which Angel’s Cup sends you one bag of coffee at intervals of your choice.
  — Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored, 29 Oct. 2020
• Down below was a vast body of water, the surface broken at intervals by whitecaps.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Rustic picnic tables and sandstone blocks placed at intervals along these trails tempt hikers to sit for a spell.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
• For a longer flowering period, plant bulbs at intervals of 1-2 weeks.
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 28 July 2022
• The bombardments have typically come at intervals of about a week.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• Getting runners to the starting line in smaller numbers, starting the race at intervals waves (rather than all at one time) and keeping the finish-line area clear, as much as possible.
  — Kevin Pates, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• An application of a balanced fertilizer at intervals of 10 to 14 days is helpful after the new growth has emerged.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• My parents came up from Texas in December 2020 to quarantine and test before seeing us and then returned at intervals after that.
  — Time, 17 Sep. 2022
• Using telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, the Canary Islands, and space, his research team took pictures of hundreds of distant galaxies at a time, repeating the process at intervals of three weeks.
  — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2011
• Multiple police boats patrolled the waters and foot patrols were stationed at intervals along the beach, ready to scoop up interlopers.
  — WIRED, 2 July 2023
• Runners were sent off at intervals, beginning at 6 a.m.
  — Kevin Pates, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
• Attendees can expect to walk along the track, stopping at intervals to exercise about 10 minutes at each fitness station.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2023
• Pigeons —technically rock doves — came and went at intervals.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• From there, if all goes smoothly, election workers expect to tally votes cast in person on Tuesday and release those at intervals throughout Tuesday night.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• The most important thing to do is change the oil and filter at intervals recommended by the vehicle’s manufacturer.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The most important thing to do is change the oil and filter at intervals recommended by the vehicle’s manufacturer.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• But farmers put more effort into their reefs, planting shell or rock and raking or turning the material at intervals so that oyster larvae have clean surfaces to settle on.
  — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2023
• But farmers put more effort into their reefs, planting shell or rock and raking or turning the material at intervals so that oyster larvae have clean surfaces to settle on.
  — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2023
• The devotion includes crosses spaced at intervals (both indoors and out) alongside art such as paintings or sculptures depicting pivotal scenes from Jesus’s life.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 1 Mar. 2023
• Even the railings were designed to support extended conversation, wide enough to rest an elbow on and punctuated at intervals by ashtrays.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• While federal officials have suggested annual shots, this study is the first to examine the long-term outcomes from a booster schedule and the first to show that boosters will be especially effective at intervals of no more than a year.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
• Another invisible presence, Death, in all its awful glory, inhabits each of their bodies at intervals, making disclosures and promising, as the tense night rolls forward, to claim a tribute.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Maldonado had a panic button installed inside her home after her vehicle was damaged in an attack, and had police patrols going past her home at intervals.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• Long-endurance drones, loitering at high altitude at intervals, could beam laser energy to one another over long distances, finally sending it down to a U.S. military base.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
• For students who do not complete their Healthcheck surveys at intervals determined by each participating school, notifications will be sent to the student health center for follow-up.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2020
• Apted pursued these people’s stories, visiting them at intervals.
  — Alissa Quart, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024