fitfully in English

adverb
1
not regularly or continuously; intermittently.
he slept fitfully

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1. I dozed fitfully until dawn.

2. He slept fitfully, full of strange dreams.

3. Spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces.

4. He dozed fitfully, and then slept.

5. She slept fitfully , disturbed by nightmares.

6. For a while she dozed fitfully.

7. Moran himself slept fitfully beside their brother.

8. I dozed fitfully for a few hours.

9. During the interview, she coughed fitfully but would not expectorate.

10. She slept fitfully, her mind crowded with confusing dreams.

11. Mary nestled up against her mother and dozed fitfully.

12. Emaciated, wild eyed rats darted about fitfully in a small cage.

13. I slept fitfully, dreaming that a rat was softly nuzzling my ear.

14. My brother, who slept fitfully at home, threw up at school.

15. Some people managed to sleep, but most of us just dozed fitfully.

16. The sun shone fitfully and then light snow blew into our faces.

17. Though they do not truly hibernate , bears often sleep fitfully through much of the winter.

18. Edwin worked fitfully at his menial job of freight clerk, continuing to disappoint his family.

19. 16 Edwin worked fitfully at his menial job of freight clerk, continuing to disappoint his family.

20. Aspirin kept the fever at bay after that, but he slept fitfully all night.

21. The local culture they fitfully encountered was a source of bewilderment, even revulsion.

22. It never happens, though . Or at least it happens at all it happens only fitfully.

23. Though they do not truly hibernate, bears often fitfully through much of the winter.

24. During its second half , the administration shifted fitfully toward the center and scored some notable successes.

25. He dozed fitfully , and then slept until a sudden cry from his wife awoke him with a start .

26. If it reaches critical speed, whirling “funnel clouds” form, dipping fitfully from the dark clouds draped above.

27. A little fitfully sometimes. This morning, I felt too sick to even get out of bed.

28. Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.

29. But as these countries gradually, if fitfully, merge into the global market economy, fewer and fewer such barriers exist.

30. Mount St. Helens, flanked by Mount Adams (far left) and Mount Hood, is settling fitfully back into the volcanic landscape.

31. The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice drop -- The Bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully -- so fearfully -- Above the closed …

32. When the Quest is reached, the Overself reveals its presence fitfully and Brokenly at first but later the hide-and-seek game ends in loving union.: Quando si giunge alla Ricerca l'Io supremo mostra la sua presenza in modo spezzettato ed a tratti, all'inizio, ma poi questo gioco a nascondino termina in amorevole unione.: The student who has not yet been purified of egoism can only be used