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FROM TIME TO TIME
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sporadically and infrequently
Example:
as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention
Synonyms:
at times; from time to time; now and again; now and then; occasionally; on occasion; once in a while
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Context examples:
Feeling worried from time to time is normal.
(Anxiety molecules affect male and female mice differently, NIH)
From time to time Mr. Morse glanced at Martin, as much as to say, "There, my boy, you see."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This loadstone is under the care of certain astronomers, who, from time to time, give it such positions as the monarch directs.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
From time to time the little ones played round their parents in unwieldy gambols, the great beasts bounding into the air and falling with dull thuds upon the earth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But she glanced curiously from time to time into the dark corner where he sat.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But, although they had had company from time to time, it never happened to be unexpected, and Meg had never had an opportunity to distinguish herself till now.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One and all, from time to time, they felt his teeth; and to his credit, he gave more than he received.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
From time to time, indeed, I had to lend him a hand, or he must have missed his footing and fallen backward down the hill.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king’s daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings’ sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
