How to Use intermittent in a Sentence

intermittent

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• The patient was having intermittent pains in his side.
• The forecast is for intermittent rain.
• Most of the path winds along a ridge above Grey Lake with intermittent views back to the glacier.
  — Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• From the mid-’90s to the present, the Temple’s ground floor saw intermittent use as an event space.
  — Lawrence Specker | , al, 10 May 2023
• The only other sounds were the intermittent chirping of the sbirds in the trees.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The intermittent dieters kept more of their weight off for the long-term, too.
  — Health.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• These intermittent dieters kept the weight off for the long term, too.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The park felt eerily still on Monday, aside from the intermittent chirps from birds and the white noise of the water.
  — Michael Krohn, oregonlive, 3 May 2022
• But intermittent use—up to four times per day for 72 hours at a time—is safe.
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2023
• The boyfriend told police the child had fallen the day before and had an intermittent fever.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• Along the way are a number of intermittent creeks and campsites.
  — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The intermittent wiper on the liftgate window has a washer to keep the rear window clean.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 30 Sep. 2017
• The bright orange jerseys flashed in the stands and the intermittent cheers were audible.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
• Pelosi, for her part, has waved off the intermittent challenges.
  — David Wright, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
• The intermittent and sideways approach asks a lot of the actors.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• That’s more than six months of intermittent buzzing and banging.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• This is in response to the letter to you about intermittent fasting.
  — cleveland.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• May John Ashbery live his intermittent life in the thoughts of his admirers for years to come.
  — Evan Kindley, New Republic, 6 Sep. 2017
• The sun should still make intermittent appearances, but clouds help to keep it from being a scorcher.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• The multi-use trail is open, but will see intermittent closures for bridge work.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
• The San Marino gardens weren’t yet open to the public and the grounds were eerily quiet but for the whooshing of leaves in the wind and the intermittent trilling of wild parrots.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• There was intermittent rain showers at the time of the accident.
  — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
• But there were intermittent signs of life in the film and of obvious talent behind the camera.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The latest media tour of the site took place on a day of heavily overcast skies and intermittent rain.
  — al, 3 Feb. 2022
• But wind is intermittent, and on-shore wind farms can only be relied on for roughly one-third of that amount.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• Any cooling in the days ahead is intermittent and minor.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
• At least that is the claim by some who study an approach to eating—and not eating—called intermittent fasting.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The freeway traffic kept up a steady thrum, punctuated by the intermittent blare of a balky car alarm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• That’s because the story of club soccer in France is too intermittent.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• There was intermittent rain in the area Friday morning.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024