[
UK
/ˌɪntəmˈɪt/
]
VERB
-
cease an action temporarily
let's break for lunch
We pause for station identification
How To Use intermit In A Sentence
- Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
- And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame.
- If you have a grade other than ‘W’ you are able to intermit your place in a course for up to 12 months.
- In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.
- It dawned today dankly raining, but by mid morning and my coffee pilgrimage there was sunlight, intermittently, and a warming breeze from the south.
- By microwave-isted extraction and intermittent microwave radiation heating, the new technology of obtaining Porphyra haitanensis polysaccharides was studied.
- Shulman CE, Dorman EK, Cutts F, Kawuondo K, Bulmer JN, et al. (1999) Intermittent sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to prevent severe anaemia secondary to malaria in pregnancy: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- She added that inherently intermittent supplies from wind and solar power would be of limited use in bridging the gap. Times, Sunday Times
- Malar J 6: 88. van Eijk AM, Ayisi JG, ter Kuile FO, Otieno JA, Misore AO, et al. (2004) Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for control of malaria in pregnancy in western Kenya: a hospital-based study. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Intermittent intervals of moonlight would mean not having to use flashlights, when he and Larsen entered the enemy's territory.