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UK
/əkˈeɪʒənəl/
]
[ US /əˈkeɪʒənəɫ/ ]
[ US /əˈkeɪʒənəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals
episodic in his affections
occasional headaches -
recurring or reappearing from time to time
periodic feelings of anxiety -
occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
an occasional worker
casual employment
a casual correspondence with a former teacher -
occurring from time to time
took an occasional glass of wine
How To Use occasional In A Sentence
- Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
- Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
- He's not the fastest player on the books and occasionally he can be a bit casual and sometimes gets caught in possession.
- Plans include occasional stops at Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions through the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, Jamestown and even Cleveland. The Buffalo News: Home
- But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
- The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green.
- And why do his eyes occasionally appear to glow red, like those of a replicant? Times, Sunday Times
- Chickadees called occasionally, but never titmice.
- Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
- He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
