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Example sentences for "short intervals"

  • She will thus check the animal's desire to increase his speed, by compelling him to rest upon her hand at short intervals until he can be brought under command and again made obedient.

  • Some horses, after having fairly entered upon the canter, will change the leading leg, and will even keep changing from one to the other, at short intervals.

  • One of them sat in it, and, looking long and steadily through the glasses, I could see the tail of this bird thrown, at short intervals, spasmodically upwards.

  • Hardly is he on, when he jumps off again, and this he does two or three times more, at short intervals, in a restless, nervous sort of way.

  • In the next place, I would make an earnest effort to lessen the ruinous litigation and the instability caused by the statutory leases renewable at short intervals of time.

  • The blue guns and riflemen moved to another position and continued, at short intervals, to fire on the pioneers.

  • The grey swept on, near now to Front Royal; before them a few blue fugitives, centre of a swiftly moving cloud of dust, a cloud into which the Thunder Run men fired at short intervals.

  • He was cheered when, at short intervals, in the month or two there in camp, he reviewed his army.

  • As soon as the disengagement of carbonic acid ceases, the operator sucks over a fresh portion of sulphuric acid, and this is repeated at short intervals, until bubbles of gas are no longer disengaged.

  • To the water contained in a pint bottle add the tragacanth, agitate briskly for a few minutes, and again at short intervals, until the tragacanth is perfectly diffused, and has finally formed a mucilage.

  • After the third or fourth day nourishment should be given in small quantities at short intervals, as every two hours, every hour, or even every half hour when the prostration is extreme.

  • It consisted in the administration of very small doses of calomel at short intervals, and with each of the first doses a few drops of laudanum.

  • His method is to sit quietly in the wagon, and at short intervals throw a small pebble at the horse.

  • Leaves to the number of 141 were immersed in water at the same time with those in the solutions, and their state recorded at short intervals of time.

  • My son made at short intervals of time sketches of one of the above aggregated masses, and found that they continually and completely changed their forms; sometimes separating from one another and again coalescing.

  • On three occasions the above small masses of matter were observed and sketched at short intervals of time; and they certainly changed their positions relatively to each other and to the walls of the arms.

  • The leaves in the two lots were compared at short intervals of time, up to 24 hrs.

  • The country over which the two armies were advancing to the conflict is a dead flat, covered at short intervals with a low but thick jungle, and dotted with sandy hillocks.

  • At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.

  • Well, I kept not my watch uselessly; for I soon beheld three men enter the house in Horsemonger Lane, individually and at short intervals.

  • Quin thus got upon very pleasant terms with the poor family; and, making Briggs sit next to him, he began to chatter away in a familiar style, not forgetting to hand round the quart-pot at short intervals.

  • As its name implies, this chamber was once the bath-room of the house; but bathing has gone much out of fashion with the Icelander, and he no longer considers a tub at short intervals to be desirable.

  • By the first, as previously indicated, the grower perseveres in sowing clover at short intervals in the rotation.

  • Yet, again, it was noticed that by sowing clover at short intervals on such soils, the improvement in the growth of the plants was constant.

  • Guard-houses have been erected at short intervals, the passes are strongly fortified, and a large force of well-trained men is stationed permanently in the valley.

  • There was much uncultivated land, and the population seemed scanty, but officials and soldiers were numerous, while guard-houses dominated the trail at short intervals.

  • At short intervals on the road were tea-houses and restaurants of the simpler sort especially planned to cater to the coolie class, but they were often not unattractive.

  • In the afternoon we stopped as before at short intervals at some roadside tea-house, for the coolies generally expect to rest every hour.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short 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:
    about two miles from; being driven; eight inches; pleasant place; regional party; remarked that; short allowance; short distance above the; short distances; short form; short length; short line; short order; short rations; short reign; short rest; short silence; short sketch; short space; short sword; short tail; short while; shorter period; shorter time; south porch; white feather