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UK
/ˌɪntəmˈɪtənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈmɪtənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈmɪtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
stopping and starting at irregular intervals
intermittent rain showers
How To Use intermittent In A Sentence
- Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
- 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.
- What accounts for the intermittent nature of southern rural protest? A Social History of Modern Spain
- For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait. Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland