How to Use at intervals in a Sentence

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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
  • The supports for the house are ancient tree trunks that stand at intervals throughout, like a strange branchless forest.
    Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Its mode of confrontation, however, would perfectly suit a gallery exhibit where people pass through at intervals and decide how much patience to grant the work.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Along the route, repeaters are installed at intervals to amplify the optical signal and ensure data can travel long distances without degradation.
    Robin Chataut, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2024
  • 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

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