How To Use Fitfully In A Sentence
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The film is fitfully amusing and there are a few good giggles to be had.
The Sun
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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
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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.
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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
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The film is fitfully amusing and there are a few good giggles to be had.
The Sun
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Visbec watched him from the back of the wagon, where he was fitfully fixing a broken string on his psaltery.
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It worked only fitfully, and the discs failed to work in some kinds of CD players, notably in-car systems.
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My hair, reddish in the sunlight, unraveled from its bun and corkscrewed across my overwarm face, fitfully blocking traffic from sight.
Bleeding Violet
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he slept fitfully
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Intercommunal fighting continued fitfully, with occasional upsurges of intense violence.
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Climbing into bed at a relatively early 0048 this morning, I could do little other than drift fitfully between wakefulness and a semi-conscious dozing, looking at my watch every here and again to see the hours ticking by slower than ever.
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Returning to the open park in front of Cranbury, there occurs that fitfully blooming plant, lady's-tresses -- Neottia Spiralis autumnalis -
John Keble's Parishes
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Flitting fitfully from discordant strings and hectic glockenspiels to lean oboe solos, Rota's masterpiece is an unstable symphony to the teeming metropolis.
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The darkness was starting to lighten before she dozed, then slept fitfully, tossing and turning.
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Dozens of small balsa-wood structures were scattered on the cement floor, both within and outside the ambit of a crude wooden sluice system that carried a fitfully circulating trickle of water.
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Instead, he watched her sleep and dozed fitfully thinking about her and what to do next.
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He was asleep, but he was resting fitfully - his black hair was matted against his head, and his breath came out in rasping sighs.
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The advanced industrial economies are still only fitfully recovering.
Times, Sunday Times
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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I slept fitfully through what seemed an interminable night.
Seminary Boy
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For many months he wouldn't settle, slept fitfully, never napped and as a result was tired, irritable and tiring.
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They made unlikely pairing in an interesting if fitfully awkward night.
Times, Sunday Times
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He coughed fitfully and held his heaving chest as dark liquid trickled out of his mouth.
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After midnight, outspanning in a piercing wind, we formed square; main guard was posted over the General's car, and those lucky enough to escape turn of duty huddled together under cloaks and dozed fitfully until two-thirty.
With Botha in the Field
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The noises of the camp drifted up over the grade fitfully, dreamily; some new hunger that might have been called homesickness was urging a new tone into the evening sounds.
The Return of Blue Pete
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English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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Not many miles away another little ship was slipping through the water, fitfully tacking against the contrary wind, seeking an easterly path.
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I slept fitfully, dreaming that a rat was softly nuzzling my ear.
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I dozed fitfully and uncomfortably at first and then fell into a deep, heavy sleep.
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In the latest issue of The Nation, NYU professor and Hugo Chavez sycophant Greg Grandin praises "Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, where progressive movements are fitfully trying to 'refound' their societies along more inclusive lines.
Reason Magazine
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I slept fitfully, awakened from time to time by my fears alone, at others by the haunting war cries or the percussive sound of an explosion in the distance.
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He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches.
Almayer's Folly
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Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.
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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
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A calm morning, as if the gods partied late last night and they are still sleeping fitfully.
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They made unlikely pairing in an interesting if fitfully awkward night.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've been progressing fitfully, onwards and upwards through September, both physically and spiritually.
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Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
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I dozed fitfully until morning, when I awake feeling knackered; my spouse looked worried and ashen in sympathy.
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Returning to the open park in front of Cranbury, there occurs that fitfully blooming plant, lady's-tresses -- Neottia Spiralis autumnalis -
John Keble's Parishes
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It is a fitfully lively, dutifully interesting slice of quality moviemaking.
