Alternately

The black and white squares on a checker board are arranged alternately.

Day and night come alternately.

A and B alternately roll an N-sided die, A always first. A game is lost by the first roll failing to better the previous. What is the probability that A wins?

Tom's mind was divided into ten different personalities, who alternately took control. They all knew each other and considered themselves different individuals.

Dorcon, being thus disappointed for the second time and having given his cheeses away to no purpose, conceived a plan of carrying off Chloe by force, whenever he might find her alone; and having observed that she and Daphnis alternately conducted the flocks to drink, he contrived a scheme which would naturally strike the invention of a herdsman.

Arrange the apples and oranges alternately in a row.

The chessboard has 64 squares, alternately light and dark, distributed over 8 rows and 8 columns.

Checkers can be played on a board with 64 (8X8) or 100 (10X10) squares, alternately light and dark.

All night Katerina and I watched alternately, though, I shame to say, I slept more than I watched; and, having first ascertained that there was no change, I came directly hither.

Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I was startled by an unpleasant clamour, the jarring voice of a woman, who was trying by alternately scolding and using pet names to pacify a litter of grunting pigs on the farm.