How to Use infrequent in a Sentence

infrequent

adjective
  • We made infrequent stops along the way.
  • 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
  • But the events at the Autry were too infrequent to nurture a sense of belonging.
    Renée Reizman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But there are few transit routes to these jobs, and those that do run are infrequent.
    Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Full moons on Fridays are infrequent; the last one was 2006.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bear sightings are infrequent but not unheard of in the region.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Injuries and infrequent major-league stints dimmed hype around the former first-round pick.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2022
  • Protests have been infrequent over the past two years but homelessness has overwhelmed the Old Town neighborhood and spilled across the city’s core.
    oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The trophy bears the scores of games between the two former Dallas neighbors, which are, alas, infrequent.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 July 2020
  • One of the states that has moved to shift to a more infrequent reporting schedule is Florida.
    Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 2 July 2021
  • Thanks to Baltimore’s two first-inning runs, each of Means’ 20 outs recorded came with a lead, infrequent for him of late.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Four-column display was infrequent, although not unheard of, on the Times’ front pages of the early 1960s.
    W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021
  • It’s intended for apps that have a one-time or infrequent need to access some photos or videos.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Milton’s eastward path through the Gulf is so infrequent the most recent comparable storm was in 1848.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024

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