fitful in English

adjective
1
active or occurring spasmodically or intermittently; not regular or steady.
a few hours' fitful sleep

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1. Winterborne fell into a fitful sleep.

2. The whole debate was rather fitful.

3. John Barton had revived to fitful intelligence.

4. 7 John awoke from a fitful sleep .

5. He finally fell into a fitful sleep.

6. It was a rather fitful sleep though.

7. Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep.

8. He enters his home and passes a fitful night.

9. I spent a fitful night in the mud.

10. It was a cool day with fitful sunshine.

11. He is the fitful person for this job.

12. Fitful clouds were beginning to obscure the sun.

13. 8 It was a cool day with fitful sunshine.

14. Fitful, spasmodic, Convulsive mean lacking steadiness or regularity in movement. fitful implies intermittence, a succession of starts and stops or risings and fallings

15. The words fitful and spasmodic are common synonyms of Convulsive

16. Our Pearl a fitful and fantastic little elf sometimes.

17. Strike in chords from your harp fitful momentary rhythms.

18. " Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little elf sometimes.

19. They passed into the fitful darkness of the dock cavern.

20. The peace talks only seem to be making fitful progress.

21. Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Sentencedict.com

22. Fitful gusts came winnowing through the smells of many distant fields.

23. 8 synonyms for Convulsive: jerky, violent, sporadic, fitful, spasmodic, paroxysmal, spasmodic

24. And there are only fitful signs of renewed amity among diplomats.

25. She had slept badly, tossing and turning before falling into a fitful doze.

26. Finally, one morning after a fitful night, I walked alone down a deserted hospital corridor.

27. Each academic species has evolved its own language, so interdisciplinary communication is rare and fitful.

28. It wasn't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep.

29. It smeared the faces of the men in the room, fighting a losing, fitful battle with the shadows.

30. Thinking about it and its possible implications, he drifted into a fitful doze, a gentle smile on his face.

31. Black musicals had been performed before on New York stages, starting in 1891 and continuing in fitful cycles through the years.

32. Sit not sad because that time a fitful Aspect weareth; Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it bearth

33. The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.

34. 30 Sit not sad because that time a fitful aspect weareth; Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it bearth. 

35. While all these words mean "intense emotion compelling action," Ardor suggests warm and excited feeling likely to be fitful or short-lived

36. Through this mist could be seen a white church, here and there roofs of cottages in Borodino, and fitful glimpses came of compact masses of soldiers, and green ammunition-boxes and cannons.