How to Use infrequency in a Sentence

infrequency

noun

• For awhile, Erin and I kept in touch, writing emails made all the more intense by their infrequency.
  — Eryn Loeb, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• Two of the biggest triggers for dandruff flare-ups are stress and infrequency of hair washing.
  — Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps that has something to do with the infrequency of success.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 16 July 2017
• 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
• What’s important, though, is that his career-best shooting wasn’t some fluke of infrequency.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• And that was the consensus: President Trump's behavior is getting worse in type and infrequency.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 Aug. 2019
• 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
• However, such incidents are rare, and the deployment of such equipment should reflect such infrequency.
  — Bernard B. Kerik, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Stevenson said the infrequency and unpredictable nature of meetings made planning difficult.
  — Anna Douglas and Michael Gordon and Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 25 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• The infrequency of the experience for us creates euphoria of apocalyptic proportions.
  — The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024