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How to use the word sporadically in a Sentence?

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There was times where we created a lot, but we’ve got to do that kind of stuff for a full 60 minutes, sporadically is not going to win you hockey games. We’ve got to figure out ways to get it done.

The Canucks

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Out of more than 2,800 pulsars cataloged, the Crab pulsar is one of only a few that emit giant radio pulses, which occur sporadically and can be hundreds to thousands of times brighter than the regular pulses, after decades of observations, only the Crab has been shown to enhance its giant radio pulses with emission from other parts of the spectrum.

Teruaki Enoto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The separatists started shooting sporadically at joint security forces who were approaching them in front of a honai (traditional Papuan house), after they (security forces) responded with shots, the separatists ran for the woods while shooting indiscriminately.

West Papuan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Though the President Obama administration sporadically tried to restart negotiations, there was never discussion of a presidential summit. The Obama administration would have been very much out of keeping with policy. Past administrations would not have considered a presidential summit before a major accomplishment had been made, and more likely at the end of a disarmament process, the president( Donald Trump) has invented this idea out of thin air for reasons passing understanding. If he's trying to argue that Kim Jong Un likes Kim Jong more, I for one can't understand why he would take pride in that.

Adam Mount

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Outbreaks of avian cholera have occurred sporadically in the region over the past few decades, the important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds.

Steve Schmidt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you eat fruits, veggies, nuts, whole grains, and beans often, they won't bother you as much as if you eat them sporadically.

Cynthia Sass

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Mr. Zarauskas is a sporadically employed New Jersey construction worker who likes to go to flea markets, he was never present when a tusk crossed the border, and we think any suggestion that he knew the tusks were illegal is shaky.

Steve Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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