intermittent
Wind energy supplies power only intermittently - when the wind blows.
The group has met intermittently for several years in an attempt to devise a long-term plan.
In the war-torn city, electricity is available only intermittently.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Frequency & regularity - general words
(as) regular as clockworkidiom
-ly
clockwork
endemically
erratic
erratically
fitful
irregular
irregularly
like clockworkidiom
many
many a timeidiom
on-off
periodic
periodically
prevalence
regularity
religiously
unsynchronized
would

Examples of intermittently

intermittently
This approach promises much, and intermittently delivers on its promises.
She was intermittently confused and disorientated and wished to be discharged.
In the end, the ministry was intermittently criticized for enriching minority entrepreneurs and infringing on the privileges of minority vested interest.
The two inner sheets are first intermittently roll-seam welded with a cross pattern while the two outer sheets are periphery welded.
Rights of free unrestricted association on the hill had been intermittently linked with contention over civic polity throughout the eighteenth century.
Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family.
It also means that treated effluent discharge is usually best done intermittently so as to minimise the chance of outfall pipes freezing up.
Other parishes intermittently felt the burdens that could result from granting certificates, or showed awareness of them.
Intermittently, at least two different generations of traces can be identified superimposing older sediment surfaces.
The units were intermittently noisy from their vocalisations.
He is, at last, all body: only intermittently conscious, in terrible pain, he exists only as a corpus to be fed, cooled, medicated, and soothed.
Particles alternate intermittently between being carried along with the main stream and being trapped in the regions of recirculation.
The water supply may also be contaminated for only a short period or intermittently.
This blows intermittently at night when it first comes, but later displaces the north wind during the day.
These were used intermittently as required for stage productions.
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