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Definition of "now and then" []

  • Sometimes; occasionally; intermittently (adverb)

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Use "now and then" in a sentence
  • "“Like, maybe you can find a few minutes every now and then to review my new Abdominator workouts before I post them on the Web?”"
  • "Every now and then a large truck holding a battered steel container empties seawater collected from nearby Gemile Beach at the end of the Kaya Valley."
  • "After that, we dated occasionally, sometimes with our good friends, Bill and Ardis Holden, but both of us continued to date other people, and now and then our paths would cross while we were out with someone else."