Examples of alternating in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web District 203 Superintendent Dan Bridges said early childhood students in full-day preschool will begin returning to their schools on an alternating-day basis beginning Thursday. — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2020 In Montgomery, churches could have alternating rows of pews roped off and pillows placed in the others, asking only family members to sit together. — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2020 To rein in these non-traditional energy sources, researchers typically rely on rectifiers, or devices designed to convert the alternating current of electromagnetic waves—which oscillate in every which direction—into a direct current. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020 The novel presents the alternating viewpoints of Alice and Eleanor in first person, as well as several chapters following John Billington’s point of view (which is disconcertingly rendered in third person). — Emily Gray Tedrowe, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020 People will also have alternating chills and sweats, and body aches. — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020 Ions enter at one end and are shuffled along through alternating regions where they can be held for storage or hit by lasers that perform qubit manipulation operations on them. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020 Trump combined toothless belligerence with economic sanctions designed to destroy Iran’s economy and weaken its regime, similar to his approach to North Korea but without the alternating eruptions of insult and bonhomie. — Steven Simon, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020 NADAAA’s contribution to this formula in Cleveland was to stagger alternating floor layouts in order avoid creating a monotonous gridiron of windows. — Steven Litt, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020

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