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Example sentences for "intermitted"

Lexicographically close words:
intermingled; intermingling; intermission; intermissions; intermit; intermittence; intermittency; intermittent; intermittently; intermittents
  1. Should intermitted vengeance Arme again His red right hand to plague us?

  2. They had not gone far before the rear-guard intermitted blackberrying for an instant, and uttered an eldrich screech; then proclaimed, "Another coach!

  3. From midnight to sunrise the sound of “pop-crackers” and pistol-shots was hardly intermitted by a minute’s silence.

  4. And in all the four hours the rain never intermitted one drop, and the wind only changed from the east to blow from all quarters of the heavens at once.

  5. Village wags—with none of whom he was popular—spread the story that he intermitted his studies for a year in the hope that in the interim he might grow tall enough to see over the front of a pulpit.

  6. But Augustus was the first, who restored that intermitted law.

  7. On the Sunday after the conversation I have just narrated, this custom was not intermitted and on this occasion, towards the middle of the evening, Dr.

  8. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

  9. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

  10. To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.

  11. The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.

  12. Being raised by this generally good character to a proper confidence in himself, he claimed to be admitted into the senate; a thing intermitted for many years, on account of the worthlessness of former flamens.

  13. The contest with Philip, which had begun about ten years before, had been intermitted for the three last years; the Aetolians having been the occasion both of the war and the peace.

  14. She often raised her head, intermitted her occupation, and appeared to listen; but it was to the voices of her Past that she was giving heed, and not to the ceaseless patter of the rain.

  15. Charley himself, too, whose visits to Mr. Aird's studio had been intermitted for some time, was received in Soho with coldness.

  16. For nearly an hour, the quarrel continued with intermitted truces of silence.

  17. The intermitted exercise of its power brings no sense of security to its subjects, for they can never know what more they will be called to endure when its red right hand is armed to plague them again.

  18. With a barbarity never intermitted the frontier war went on in Gilead, where Ammon and Moab showed themselves friendly to the Syrian cause (Amos i.

  19. The bickerings which had begun in Holland had never been intermitted during the whole course of the expedition; but at Tarbet they became more violent than ever.

  20. Overhead, the heavy bell swung out slow, intermitted peals, that thrilled down through all the timbers of the building, and forth upon the crisp autumn air.

  21. But the war against slavery was not at all intermitted by the victory of the Democrats.

  22. But their attendance seems to have intermitted from this time to the twenty-third year of Edward's reign.

  23. Sir Francis Palgrave maintains that the council never intermitted its authority, but on the contrary "it continually assumed more consistency and order.

  24. St. John Baptist was to be intermitted from thence to that of St. Peter, and then to recommence; that it might not be claimed as a right.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intermitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.