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Example sentences for "frequent intervals"

  • Many of the men were obliged to halt at frequent intervals.

  • Even where we stood under the lee of a little ice cliff it came in fierce gusts at frequent intervals, blowing up the powdery snow in a suffocating tourbillon.

  • The greater part of the population was busily engaged in repairing the bridge, to the accompaniment at frequent intervals of hideous blasts on a large conch-shell: this, we were told, was to keep the rain away and stop the floods.

  • Long pauses were necessary at frequent intervals, for the men were very weak.

  • More often the unnavigable streams serve as guides to the traveller in the dense jungles, the tracks running up their banks, crossing and recrossing them at frequent intervals.

  • Later I learned from one of my wardens that the pacings of the criminals condemned to this and the other cells is so persistent and ceaseless as to demand the renewal of the boards at frequent intervals.

  • Even this programme did not satisfy his love of power and arrogance, because at frequent intervals he would suddenly summon two additional parades and for no ostensible reason, except to harass us.

  • Then again, at frequent intervals, the sentry would enter.

  • Rotation in office, the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions.

  • To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc.

  • Defn: A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc.

  • Furthermore, there was a moon, that night, well advanced in her second quarter, and at frequent intervals during a particularly restless night I caught glimpses of shadowy forms moving restlessly hither and thither ashore.

  • The bird continued to sing for a long time and at frequent intervals, not even stopping when the engine near at hand blew off steam, although he turned his head and looked a little startled.

  • When vegetation of all sorts is white from drought the Wonderboom is as green as if it had been watered at frequent intervals.

  • All the time weird-sounding gongs and music came from the interior of the temple, the heads of goats being severed at frequent intervals in front of the entrance, each having been bought by the disciple making the blood offering.

  • White brick buildings, covered with red-tile roofing, rise from the verdured sides at frequent intervals.

  • In country districts garbage should be burned in the kitchen or buried in the garden at frequent intervals, twenty-four hours being the maximum time it should be retained.

  • Earth closets and privy vaults should be treated with lime, crude creolin or crude carbolic acid at frequent intervals.

  • All clothes presses should be thoroughly cleaned at frequent intervals.

  • During the summer time all open vaults and dry closets should be treated continuously with lime, crude creolin or crude carbolic acid, and they should be carefully cleaned out at frequent intervals.

  • A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc.

  • Series of cascades, a quarter to half a mile long, are met with at frequent intervals, which rival in their beauty and magnificence those of the Columbia or the Upper Yellowstone.

  • For thousands of years these miniature torrents have, at frequent intervals, tumbled down here, and in all that time have worn but slight notches in the rocky walls.

  • The night was bitter cold, at this high altitude, and snow fell at frequent intervals.

  • At frequent intervals he would get up and replenish the fire from the large supply of dry wood we had provided.

  • So everything passed off very pleasant and satisfactory at the police-station, but Emily spent the evening and the ensuing night right where she was, voicing her regrets at frequent intervals.

  • In the afternoon the country became more populous, that is, there were kraals of mat huts at frequent intervals, and groups of tents to which an external wall of mats gave a certain aspect of permanence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frequent intervals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ascertain what; better then; brought over; cease fire; each will; frequent cause; frequent contributor; frequent earthquakes; frequent intervals; frequent occurrence; frequently employed; frequently found; frequently mentioned; frequently observed; frequently repeated; frequently represented; frequently seen; frequently used; human genius; jeune fille; knew about; last half; lesse then; overseas territory; paramilitary forces; peculiar kind