fitfully

[ US /ˈfɪtfəɫi/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪtfəli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a fitful manner
    he slept fitfully

How To Use fitfully In A Sentence

  • The film is fitfully amusing and there are a few good giggles to be had. The Sun
  • One Christmas Eve in the `twenties, she was mollified by shadows cast by a moon that rode fitfully in and out of fast-moving scud. DISPLACED PERSON
  • North America attracted the English Crown as a forward base to attack Spain's possessions, and the Church of England fitfully heeded biblical imperatives to proselytize the heathen.
  • This love letter to a building is fitfully imbued with the spectral presence of the people who have poured their energy into it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film is fitfully amusing and there are a few good giggles to be had. The Sun
  • Visbec watched him from the back of the wagon, where he was fitfully fixing a broken string on his psaltery.
  • It worked only fitfully, and the discs failed to work in some kinds of CD players, notably in-car systems.
  • My hair, reddish in the sunlight, unraveled from its bun and corkscrewed across my overwarm face, fitfully blocking traffic from sight. Bleeding Violet
  • he slept fitfully
  • Intercommunal fighting continued fitfully, with occasional upsurges of intense violence.
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