How to Use intermittent in a Sentence

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• The patient was having intermittent pains in his side.
• The forecast is for intermittent rain.
• The only other sounds were the intermittent chirping of the sbirds in the trees.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• These intermittent dieters kept the weight off for the long term, too.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Along the way are a number of intermittent creeks and campsites.
  — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The intermittent dieters kept more of their weight off for the long-term, too.
  — Health.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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 intermittent and sideways approach asks a lot of the actors.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• The bright orange jerseys flashed in the stands and the intermittent cheers were audible.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
• This is in response to the letter to you about intermittent fasting.
  — cleveland.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• There was intermittent rain showers at the time of the accident.
  — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2017
• That’s more than six months of intermittent buzzing and banging.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Any cooling in the days ahead is intermittent and minor.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 July 2020
• Pelosi, for her part, has waved off the intermittent challenges.
  — David Wright, CNN, 5 Oct. 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
• 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
• In the intermittent light he could make out the shape of a solitary oak tree, spreading great arms from its short tremendous trunk.
  — Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, (1973) 1999
• This will be the trend for today, mostly cloud skies with some intermittent light showers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• There was intermittent rain in the area Friday morning.
  — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
• The freeway traffic kept up a steady thrum, punctuated by the intermittent blare of a balky car alarm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Is eating one meal a day during intermittent fasting bad for you?
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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 continuous dieters also lost less body fat than those in the intermittent group.
  — Health.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• 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
• That’s because the story of club soccer in France is too intermittent.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 6 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024