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[ adverb ] now and then or here and there

Examples

"he was arrogant and occasionally callous" "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees" "they visit New York on occasion" "now and again she would take her favorite book and read to us"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire .

Related terms

occasional occasional

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