Definition of "intermittently" []

• Stopping or starting at intervals. (adverb)

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• "In my experience it is easier to read over mistakes on the computer screen, especially since I have been staring at these word intermittently for nearly a year, and I want to eliminate as many mistakes in the manuscript as my sore eyes can catch."
• "The day was cloudy and it was sprinkling rain intermittently."
• "At last, though, he was forced to admit that children would not have run so far, and he circled back toward the cabin, still calling intermittently, in hoarse, strangled croaks."