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UK
/ɪɹˈɛɡjuːləli/
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[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛɡjəɫɝɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛɡjəɫɝɫi/ ]
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at an uneven rate
the patient is breathing irregularly -
in an irregular manner
the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened -
having an irregular form
irregularly shaped solids -
in an irregular manner
her letters arrived irregularly
How To Use irregularly In A Sentence
- However, he is best known for his irregularly scrawled phrases on road signs.
- The physical examination revealed a 42 mm erythematous and violaceous, irregularly bordered plaque with intermittent atrophy, hypopigmentation, and scarring.
- _ This portion of the fibrous membrane is enlarged, globous or flattened, irregularly thinned, particularly at the periphery, where it may be as thin as tissue paper, nebulous because of the stretching of its fibers principally, but in some degree (differing in different cases) to edema of the epithelial layer. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- I breathed irregularly, occasionally hiccuping in my attempts to stop crying.
- Strike the ends of the fingers irregularly on the desk (to imitate the rain pattering on the roof of a building.) 2. The Golden Book of Favorite Songs
- Astigmatism is caused when the cornea is shaped irregularly like a football.
- Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
- They then undergo further morphological changes into swollen and irregularly shaped organisms.
- Sutural bones are usually small, irregularly shaped ossicles, often found in the sutures of the cranium, especially in the parietal bones.
- But within the regular outline, it is divided obliquely into two irregularly shaped parts of unequal size that descending in height towards the centre are dovetailed together.