How To Use fits and starts In A Sentence
- This newfound urgency appears only in fits and starts.
- Aside from the gym, I tend to go clubbing and pubbing in fits and starts.
- he worked on his book by fits and starts
- 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
- Our cry is indefinite as to aspect, be crying is durative, cry out is momentaneous, burst into tears is inceptive, keep crying is continuative, start in crying is durative-inceptive, cry now and again is iterative, cry out every now and then or cry in fits and starts is momentaneous-iterative. Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
- One day Gert played even more poorly than usual at her lesson, and when Mr. Auer scolded her for not heeding the diminuendo and fortepiano, she confessed, in fits and starts, her dilemma. Goodnight Dogs
- 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
- My smart, 86-year-old father, whose razor-sharp memory has been waning of late, was definitely sliding fast toward that old-age oblivion where time, facts and people all start to blur together, sometimes into one big happy fuzzball, but most times into fits and starts of remembering, consternation and forgetting again. Carine Fabius: Unexpected Tears for the Holidays
- My own work has proceeded in fits and starts throughout the holiday, with long intervals of idleness in between.
- Technology advances by fits and starts.
