off and on


Also, on and off.

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How to use off and on in a sentence

  • 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 Onions
  • There was a subject to which I had given some years of off-and-on study.

    The Young Man and the World | Albert J. Beveridge