The fluorescent light was faulty and flickered on and off intermittently.
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Intermittently
//ɪn.tərˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ//
Synonyms for "intermittently" (73 found)
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2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- intermitentment adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Dutch
3 entries- af en aan adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- met onderbrekingen adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- met tussenpozen adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Esperanto
1 entries- intermite adv (stopping or starting at intervals)
Finnish
4 entries- aika ajoin adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- ajoittain adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- ajoittaisesti adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- katkonaisesti adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
French
2 entries- intermittemment adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- par intermittence adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Galician
1 entries- intermitentemente adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Georgian
4 entries- დროგამოშვებით adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- დროდადრო adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- შენაცვლებით adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- წყვეტილად adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
German
1 entries- absatzweise adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Icelandic
1 entries- með köflum adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Italian
1 entries- intermittentemente adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- car bi car adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- dem bi dem adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Polish
2 entries- nieregularnie adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- sporadycznie adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Portuguese
1 entries- intermitentemente adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Russian
4 entries- вре́мя от вре́мени adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- периоди́чески adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- пульсируя adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
- с перерывами adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Spanish
1 entries- intermitentemente adv (Stopping or starting at intervals)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Sami was checking his phone intermittently.
Source: tatoeba (7267808)
Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”
Source: tatoeba (8223602)
It was snowing intermittently.
Source: tatoeba (12528874)
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