How to Use sporadically in a Sentence

sporadically

adverb

• Over the years, the garden has been sporadically opened to the public.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2020
• The cat was silent in the cage, sporadically thrashing.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Place the toads sporadically up your front steps next to pumpkins and broomsticks to achieve this fun look.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• Drummer Joey Kramer — who has performed sporadically with the group in recent years — will not be part of the tour.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
• Washington made the playoffs sporadically and hasn't made it out of the wild card round since 2005.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Our house looks out onto the yard where our neighbors let the dogs out sporadically throughout the day.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Houthis have sporadically attacked ships in these waters for years, but the attacks have spiked since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
• Clashes broke out again that night and sporadically in the days that followed.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
• The math students ducked onto the floor and sporadically crawled around, looking for a safe corner to hide.
  — CBS News, 5 Sep. 2024
• But the magic that used to last 90 minutes comes more sporadically now.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
• The boat’s water pumps, meant to expel any water, worked only sporadically, and two of the pumps were not working.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Houthis have sporadically targeted a number of ships in the Red Sea region.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• The overtime rule has only been sporadically updated over the past decades, with the Trump increase being the first since 2004.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
• To take away the pass, the Warriors play Jokic straight up, sending double teams only sporadically and only late in the shot clock.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The militants have sporadically targeted ships in the region, but the attacks increased since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• In the video, Smith plays the guitar and sings, with the AI voice interjecting and singing along sporadically, praising his rendition.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• Since there are far more right-handed pitchers than left, his at-bats are coming sporadically.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• Most of the counts in the indictment were for alleged violations of the Espionage Act, a law first passed in 1917 and sporadically amended since then.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 16 July 2024
• The calls to producer David Holmes’ Belfast home studio arrived sporadically, sometimes a week or a mere few days in advance.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• Video footage of the evening seen by Variety shows riot police in the area en masse amid protesters, sporadically firing clouds of tear gas.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
• Flowers first appear in spring and then sporadically through summer and fall.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 May 2024
• While the British recording artist has sporadically posted images over the last year, fans are excited to see new photos shared from the set of Saturday Night Live.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2020
• But since recovering from heart valve surgery last year, he’s only worked sporadically as a nurse’s aide.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Werfel said the agency’s non-filer programs have only run sporadically since 2016 due to lack of funding and staffing.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Now, protests crop up sporadically in various parts of Tehran throughout each day.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• After being laid off for most of the pandemic, he was brought back last year but has only worked sporadically as events were downsized or canceled.
  — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2022
• The lineup produced sporadically over the second half of May and managed just nine runs on this mini-homestand.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 2 June 2024
• The day was observed sporadically in different places around the country.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 16 June 2022
• In 2019, Stipe started sporadically releasing singles, four of them over the course of five years, all to benefit climate groups.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• The problems in agar seem to have come and gone not just once but several times, sporadically, over the years—suggesting surprising variability in a standard lab product.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024