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Example sentences for "alternate"

Lexicographically close words:
altered; altereth; alteri; altering; alterius; alternated; alternately; alternates; alternating; alternation
  1. Each builder erected an organ which were played on alternate Sundays.

  2. In this and the preceding window figures of St. Luke, habited as a doctor, with his ox by him, alternate with figures of angels in the central light.

  3. Godaigo perceived that, if he would insure his sovereignty, he must do away at the same time with the Hojo rule and the system of alternate succession.

  4. It was even possible that the star might be one of the large class of variables which alternate in brightness, and it might have been too faint to have been visible when the chart was made.

  5. Assuming the alternate approach and recession to be caused by orbital revolution, Belopolsky found that the body emitting the light of the bright lines moved with an orbital velocity of forty-one miles.

  6. There is good reason to believe that the terracing shown in its interior is mainly due to the repeated alternate rise, partial congelation, and subsequent retreat of a vast sea of lava.

  7. In either case, at the corners, a quarter-brick called a closer has to be used in each alternate course to complete the breaking joint.

  8. The result in the external space would be the alternate production of lines of electric strain and magnetic flux, the direction of these lines being reversed each half cycle.

  9. The alternate semi-annual quickening also discloses itself directly in the cartouches; the previous semestral growth from the south polar cap actually showing in them before the impulse from the north began.

  10. In this alternate coming and going with succeeding days, we have an unsteadfastness of action most fittingly paralleled by our own weather.

  11. The Interference Theory From the wave propagation of light it follows that the image of a bright line made by a lens is not itself a simple bright line but a bright band flanked by alternate dark and bright ones.

  12. Day and night, on the other hand, alternate there with approximately the same speed as here, and except for what is due to a thinner air covering reproduce our own terrestrial diurnal conditions, which as we saw are not inimical to life.

  13. And this secular change was such as to cause the two canals to alternate in visibility.

  14. Respiration is a mechanical and chemical process, and consists in alternate inhalation and exhalation, which, in consequence of the oxygen gas in the air, effects a change in the venous blood that enters the lungs from the pulmonary artery.

  15. The filling is continued to the top, putting the composition and grenades, in alternate layers.

  16. During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary level the record will be blank.

  17. During the remainder of the month of July there was alternate rain and frost.

  18. Nothing had been thought of but the alternate dangers to be anticipated from the King or the Emperor.

  19. The whip used in alternate action with the leg will cause him to move to his right front, towards the boards.

  20. True, but these two come upon duty by alternate watches, and generally are as profoundly separated as if living leagues apart.

  21. It is the impetuous language of intense feeling, in which hope and despair strike alternate chords.

  22. Receiving, giving, praying, working--these are the alternate chords on which the music of our lives should be struck.

  23. Heavenward, earthward, should be the alternate looks--heavenward in our waiting upon God, and earthward in our service for man.

  24. His mind is perplexed, the balances of his judgment swinging in alternate and opposite ways.

  25. No longer was life one round of servile tasks, demanded by an inexorable, invisible Pharaoh; no longer was it a trampled playground, where all the flowers are crushed, as Fate and Chance take their alternate innings.

  26. The fount of miracles from drought-dust arose, Amazing even on his Imperial stage, Where marvels lightened through the alternate hours And winged o'er human earth's heroical shone.

  27. Descents to the infernal shades, in the manner of Homer and Vergil, alternate with descriptions of the Palace of Pride in the manner of the Romaunt of the Rose.

  28. With this improvements in the fine season alternate with deterioration in the winter.

  29. If the children have once become unconscious, they do not recover again as a rule but remain so until death; delirium and stupor may alternate with each other in certain cases, but the former process is by far the most frequent.

  30. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers' camp was on the southern slope of the hill, the summit being occupied at night by alternate companies, who stood to arms shortly before dawn.

  31. Our fighting strength was at this time reduced to twenty-seven men, so that they did guard and patrol alternate nights.

  32. Can there be alternate motion forward and backward of the particles of an agency?

  33. Two winged Genii, one holding a pulley, one upholding the column upon his hands, alternate with two Disciples, for whom their extended wings create a background.

  34. These alternate with the sequence of the Golden Arts, described on the succeeding page.

  35. Bordoni-Uffreduzzi maintains that the parasitic existence of the Bacillus lepræ may alternate with a saprophytic stage.

  36. MacFadyen and Hewlett have demonstrated,[62] by sudden alternate heating and cooling, that 70° C.

  37. This difficulty can be obviated by packing the roots in boxes with alternate layers of earth or sand, and placing the boxes in the coolest part of the cellar.

  38. A system of brief stops and of alternate watches could be employed throughout the whole flight without loss of advantage, for Barnet also would have to make similar delays for rest, food, and the changing or baiting of horses.

  39. And such was the badness of the road, that he had consumed more than an hour in covering, with alternate dashes and delays, the seven miles from Clown to the place where he had overtaken Anne.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alternate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; alternate; alternative; analogy; backup; bandy; beating; champion; change; changeling; circle; circling; commute; comparison; compensate; cooperate; copy; counterfeit; cover; cycle; cyclic; cyclical; delegate; deputy; double; dummy; enlist; epochal; equal; equivalent; even; exchange; exponent; extension; fake; figurehead; flounder; fluctuate; ghost; hesitate; imitation; interchange; intermit; intermittent; lieutenant; makeshift; measured; metaphor; metronomic; mock; oscillate; oscillatory; periodic; periodical; personnel; phony; pinch; pleader; procurator; provisional; proxy; pulsate; pulse; pulsing; reappear; reciprocal; reciprocate; recur; recurrent; relief; relieve; repeat; replacement; representative; requite; reserve; reserves; respond; retaliate; return; revolve; rhythmic; rhythmical; ringer; rotary; rotate; seasonal; second; secondary; seesaw; serial; shift; shuffle; shuttle; sign; spare; spell; stagger; steady; sub; substitute; substitution; surrogate; swap; sway; swing; switch; symbol; teeter; temporary; tentative; token; totter; trade; transpose; turn; understudy; undulant; undulate; utility; vary; vicar; vicarious; vice; waver; wheel; wigwag; wobble; zigzag


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alternate generation; alternate layers; alternate leaves