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[ US /spɝˈædɪk/ ]
[ UK /spɔːɹˈædɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
    a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids

How To Use sporadic In A Sentence

  • These warlords continue to exercise their authority by means of force and firepower, and often engage in sporadic armed conflict against one another.
  • Since then, there have been sporadic attempts at least to get individual westerns off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • Subterranean species are difficult to monitor since they appear seasonally and sporadically in seeps and springs or may not appear even during high water flows.
  • ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
  • Cognitive blanks are the sporadic result of careless reading, I knew.
  • Olives from wild trees (oleasters) were sporadically gathered, in the Near East, by Neolithic peoples about 10,000 years ago.
  • In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly.
  • She claims that she had sporadic contact with her alleged father. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, a family history of multiple relatives with Down syndrome suggests an inherited translocation, not sporadic non-disjunction.
  • She had not spoken to her parents in years and contact with her sisters was sporadic and infrequent.
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