off and on
Also, on and off.
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How to use off and on in a sentence
Howard Hughes lived in the hotel off-and-on for thirty years, reserving several of their bungalow-style suites at a time.
Hollywood Turns Against the Famed Beverly Hills Hotel Over the Sultan of Brunei’s Anti-Gay Stance | Marlow Stern | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe filmed it off-and-on over the course of a few months earlier this year.
Patton Oswalt Sounds Off On Stand-Up’s Critics and Why Comedians Should Win Oscars | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMiss Charlotte's temper is past all the last few weeks, she is that off-and-on and changeable like and spirity.
The Squire of Sandal-Side | Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrIf he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off-and-on—the same— He done his level best.
Sketches New and Old, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)The mate answered in the negative and advised proceeding under half sail and standing off-and-on till daybreak.
In the Track of the Trades | Lewis R. Freeman
And it puzzled folk that the rivalry of the two men should be bound up in a curious off-and-on sort of intimacy.
Back o' the Moon | Oliver OnionsThere was a subject to which I had given some years of off-and-on study.
The Young Man and the World | Albert J. Beveridge
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