How to Use infrequent in a Sentence

infrequent

adjective

• We made infrequent stops along the way.
• The case is ongoing, but the court dates are infrequent.
  — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Fires were once infrequent in the Mojave Desert and smaller in size.
  — Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Moab is a high desert that gets infrequent rain—hence the sparse vegetation.
  — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• Maka Ali, the 70-year-old deputy leader of the camp, said visits by aid agencies are infrequent.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Injuries and infrequent major-league stints dimmed hype around the former first-round pick.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2022
• Protests have been infrequent over the past two years but homelessness has overwhelmed the Old Town neighborhood and spilled across the city’s core.
  — oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
• Dallas holds a four-game winning streak over Cincinnati, the longest in the infrequent series.
  — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2022
• The practice was more infrequent in cities, where children tended to live closer to their schools and could return home for lunch.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
• Most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains has infrequent earthquakes.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 June 2022
• This week, then, brings that infrequent intersection of home games — a lunar eclipse of sorts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
• Erica spotted a faint strip of dirt that had been carved into the slope by the area’s infrequent visitors.
  — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2023
• That’s why collectors can go a little crazy on the infrequent occasion that an LFA goes up for grabs.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2022
• Those reunions were infrequent, and, by 1981, the strain on their relationship had begun to show.
  — David O’Neill, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• The second issue has to do with the infrequent use of backup generators, which may sit for months to years between use.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• Side effects — mainly pain at the injection site, headaches and fatigue — were mild and infrequent.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• The Wells Fargo Autograph is a good choice for the infrequent traveler or more modest spender.
  — Emily Sherman, wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
• Their raises have been exceptionally small and infrequent over the last two decades, and their salaries remain among the lowest in the country.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2022
• Their summers – a fire worker’s busiest time – are spent apart, with only infrequent texts sent between them.
  — Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2022
• This will also help ensure that the consumers do not see rate spikes in their utility bills that are the result of infrequent rate filings.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2022
• While there may be only 25 or so Leap Days each century, plenty of notable events have happened on the infrequent date of Feb. 29.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• From Evenes, there is a direct (albeit infrequent) bus service to Svolvær, although most people rent a car.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Its front lines are close together and barraged with heavy artillery, and rotations from the front line are infrequent.
  — Text By Ellen Barry, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• What that means is, while there may be only 25 or so Leap Days each century, plenty of notable events have just so happened to take place on the infrequent date of Feb. 29.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• With one podium and three other top-10s, the Frenchman's been in contention at the top nearly as often, but his weekends outside the top-15 have been less infrequent.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• The meet-ups were infrequent, both recall, but the company was memorable.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• That, in turn, makes your current and future breakouts shorter, less intense, and more infrequent.
  — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 28 June 2022
• The succession of injuries that has arrived like so many buzzers in a game of Operation has made the lefthander’s appearances on the mound infrequent over the last four years.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• In a world where rocket launches were infrequent, space hardware was designed to last for decades before being trashed.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 June 2022
• Two white lights appeared in the distance, then disappeared and reappeared — too steady to be headlights and too infrequent to be a radio tower.
  — Anna Mazurek, Washington Post, 24 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024