by fits and starts

ADVERB
  1. intermittently
    he worked on his book by fits and starts
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How To Use by fits and starts In A Sentence

  • Military technology advances by fits and starts.
  • Military technology advances by fits and starts.
  • He talked excitedly and disconnectedly, or was silent, by fits and starts. ALOHA OE
  • Technology advances by fits and starts.
  • By fits and starts -- for the wireless was working unevenly and blurringly -- Phillips reached out to the world, crying the Titanic's peril. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
  • The Woodlawn Forge, on Staley's Creek near the middle of the Crockett Tract, was built in 1857 by Mr. John P. Wright, and is a bloomery just like the others so common southwestward in these mountains, with one fire and one hammer and water blast; and run like them, by fits and starts, with a very small yearly yield. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
  • he worked on his book by fits and starts
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