How to Use infrequent in a Sentence

infrequent

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• We made infrequent stops along the way.
• That group includes both infrequent voters and young people who were not yet eligible to vote four years ago.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• Iceland has active volcanoes and quakes are not infrequent.
  — Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Bloomberg.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• Telephone calls became infrequent and some sounded pro forma.
  — Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2020
• Why can breastfed babies have such infrequent bowel movements?
  — Vincent Iannelli, Parents, 29 July 2024
• Opportunities to play as a full unit were rare: Injuries riddled the lineup while practices and shootarounds were infrequent.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• Grand Opera House describe him as a supportive presence, if an infrequent visitor.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• While such storms are infrequent, the Leonids are worth watching during the peak Nov. 17-18 and can be seen in both hemispheres.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2024
• By all indications, electric car battery fires remain infrequent occurrences, even compared to gasoline and diesel fires.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
• While vineyards with older vines produce smaller and more infrequent yields, their wine is usually of a higher quality because each grape is more concentrated.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• Marijuana dispensaries offer discounts here and there, but industrywide sales events are infrequent, Erkes said.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• More than 1 out of 4 of all ballots — 27% — were cast either by new or infrequent voters, according to AP's analysis.
  — Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• However, when using generators for emergency power, their infrequent use presents some issues to consider.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
• The Trump factor arises largely in pollsters' screening of registered voters to weed out infrequent voters and rely for their numbers on the likeliest voters.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
• For most of that time, the spells were infrequent, maybe once a month.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• But this year the long ball has been too infrequent up and down the lineup.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2021
• All of which can be hard to pick up over Zoom, patchy phone calls, or infrequent emails.
  — Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The case is ongoing, but the court dates are infrequent.
  — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Many of us feel our social skills are still rusty from a year of infrequent use.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Both Biden and Trump brought in new and infrequent voters.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 1 July 2021
• Fires were once infrequent in the Mojave Desert and smaller in size.
  — Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• But with busy schedules and the dramatic ramp-up of miles, the checks were infrequent.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• By now, the rain has slowed from pounding fists to the soft, infrequent tapping of bored fingers, and Olivia sighs and abandons the shed.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2021
• And over the course of their infrequent reunions on Earth, the daughter gets older while the mother remains the same.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• Views of the low-lying coast are infrequent, but the joy of this ride comes from reveling in dozens of short scenic loops off U.S. Route 1.
  — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
• And nobody bothers to teach it, so between the parking lot and the lifts, novice and infrequent skiers are left to figure it out.
  — Bill Gifford, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2022
• Moab is a high desert that gets infrequent rain—hence the sparse vegetation.
  — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• School shootings are infrequent in Russia, but the Perm attack was the third in recent years.
  — Jim Heintz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021
• That learning process has been too slow and too infrequent this season.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• Maka Ali, the 70-year-old deputy leader of the camp, said visits by aid agencies are infrequent.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024