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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.
- 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
- He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
- 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.
- Made chiefly from riveted stainless steel and copper sheeting, these free-standing works are occasionally complemented with wood.
- Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
- Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
- 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.