How to Use not infrequently in a Sentence

not infrequently

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• Alan came into the office not infrequently to take Zilch to lunch.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
• Movies this female-centric not infrequently skimp on the manner in which men are portrayed.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
• As someone who not infrequently drinks her coffee in bed, this assurance is a selling point.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
• Conversely, ads meant to convince smokers to quit have not infrequently shown the worst of the worst future downsides of the habit.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The jokes not infrequently centered on the consequences of drinking.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
• Science is communal in the first instance, a matter of clubs and, not infrequently, pairings.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• These are stories about difficult and not infrequently destructive characters who are lost in their own worlds.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• In our house, this cognitive sequence happens not infrequently.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 June 2024
• As Zwick points out, awards season is defined by endless speeches about the years and decades that not infrequently precede the making of a film.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Sometimes for better but not infrequently for worse, confidence has never been an issue for Rattler.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
• His mother worried about us, too, and asked Matt, not infrequently, What if the green card doesn’t go through, what if the green card doesn’t go through, what if the green card doesn’t go through?
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Earthquakes in Arizona happen not infrequently but are rarely felt due to their remote locations and mostly weak magnitudes.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2023
• Resale tickets are strictly prohibited by the golf club, but do tend to circulate on secondary platforms, not infrequently with five-digit price tags.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
• Sponsorship changes may also have an impact in the future, with players not infrequently signing new deals or, less often, changing their racket or clothing sponsor.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• Lamont is a singer, songwriter and producer not infrequently referred to as a Motown legend.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The threat these often militant activists posed was not infrequently leveraged by mainstream activists to make their own demands for racial and economic justice appear more palatable.
  — Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Smaller cases involving similar practices pop up not infrequently.
  — chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021
• But at the height of the Gold Rush, traveling those 60 miles was an uncomfortable, dangerous and not infrequently fatal ordeal.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
• But the players not infrequently fill out programs with their own arrangements of folk tunes from their native Scandinavia, as well as, more recently, from the British Isles.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• The letter and France's response were the latest crossing of swords between two nations with a storied history of break-ups, make-ups and, not infrequently, of revelling in rubbing each up in the wrong way.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2021
• Childbirth, before the advent of obstetric anesthesia, in the mid-nineteenth century, was a harrowing and not infrequently deadly trial.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• But the administrative burden of bagging and tagging is great, and one homeless person told me that, in practice, possessions were not infrequently classified as abandoned and then swept into the trash.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
• Families that don’t qualify for Medicaid pay small fortunes, not infrequently draining their savings, to get professional care.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• Now imagine that transactional logic applied to any situation in which Musk's interests collide with others, which tends to happen not infrequently.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• Bad things follow, because artists are also, not infrequently, smug pigs or insecure creeps who suck up all the adulation on offer in a futile attempt to repair the cavernous emotional wounds that made them into artists in the first place.
  — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• In this confidently ambitious, taut and not infrequently exhausting tale of abduction, family lives are upended.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Allegations that the board failed to satisfy this obligation are not infrequently the subject of shareholder derivative litigation.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• But because Barron has been not infrequently photographed during the precise years when most people experience significant growth spurts, his suddenly looming stature has become a point of interest.
  — Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 17 June 2020
• Since some of the faithful, especially during their first exorcisms, are rather agitated by the evil one and not infrequently thrown to the ground, the exorcist has to be sure that, in case the floor is not made of wood, under the chair of the faithful there is a good carpet.
  — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025