fitfully

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fitfully
Adverb
  • Mating season is February to April, and females will lay one or two eggs per day intermittently during that period.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For some, the pause is only temporary because their Starlink dish is used intermittently for RV or camping trips.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Outside the Jeoffry section, the poem celebrates goats, wine, the King of Sardinia, the Postmaster General, and on and unpredictably on, compiling one of the more eccentric inventories of creation.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The pilots demonstrate CyRo’s capability in scenarios, highlighting its advantages, such as assembly on moving platforms where parts arrive unpredictably, handling transparent and reflective components, and adapting to new geometries without reprogramming.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • When someone is known primarily for reliability, colleagues unconsciously pigeonhole them.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The microcosm of this family unit in its death throes is all there right on the court, from Bernard’s toxic competitiveness to the way Walt unconsciously picks up on his dad’s cues and then lords his victory over his little brother (Owen Kline).
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Fitfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fitfully. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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