How to Use infrequency in a Sentence
infrequency
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For awhile, Erin and I kept in touch, writing emails made all the more intense by their infrequency.
—Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
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Two of the biggest triggers for dandruff flare-ups are stress and infrequency of hair washing.
—Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2021
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Perhaps that has something to do with the infrequency of success.
—Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 16 July 2017
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Dozier's lawyers argued that Nevada doesn't frequently apply the death penalty and that infrequency makes the state more at risk to make a mistake.
—David Montero, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
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What’s important, though, is that his career-best shooting wasn’t some fluke of infrequency.
—Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
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The infrequency of the Browns' visits to North Texas, as well as the team’s winning record (also infrequent), surely contribute to the rising ticket prices.
—Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
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The infrequency of balls put in play robs the game of some of its most exciting elements, including base stealing and standout defensive plays.
—Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
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And that was the consensus: President Trump's behavior is getting worse in type and infrequency.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 Aug. 2019
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At this point, the police killings of Black men in the US have tended to produce a sickening cycle of familiarity, from the infrequency with which officers are held accountable to the angry protests that follow.
—Andy Meek, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
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However, such incidents are rare, and the deployment of such equipment should reflect such infrequency.
—Bernard B. Kerik, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
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George's staff remember exactly how the Schertzes take their orders, and Ceballos-Schertz is even gifted a batch of turkey eggs, large brown eggs that taste similar to chicken eggs but are much rarer due to the infrequency in which turkeys lay eggs.
—Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2021
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But the intensity of his self-possession is obvious to anyone who has ever met Buttigieg: the absolute self-control, the infrequency of gaffes, the unwillingness to let the mask slip, even among his closest and most intimate friends.
—Time, 3 Feb. 2020
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Stevenson said the infrequency and unpredictable nature of meetings made planning difficult.
—Anna Douglas and Michael Gordon and Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 25 Aug. 2017
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Even though Hogan has been more lenient than any governor in a generation, the infrequency with which inmates recommended for release are granted freedom has criminal-justice activists agitating anew for change.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
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Even though Hogan has been more lenient than any governor in a generation, the infrequency with which inmates recommended for release are granted freedom has criminal justice reformers agitating anew for change.
—Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2019
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The infrequency of the experience for us creates euphoria of apocalyptic proportions.
—The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
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Prosecutors and police work together on criminal cases and have traditionally been political allies, one reason for the infrequency of charges against officers.
—Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
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