Example Sentences

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Soldiers executed air assaults, simulated missile shots across islands, navigated gulches and slept fitfully under trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

England flickered fitfully in Germany, reaching the final which ended in the familiar pain of defeat at Spain deservedly won 2-1.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

Whatever else you can say about television, it does tend to keep moving, however fitfully, into the light.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

Inflation has been cooling, but only gradually and fitfully amid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024

I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man’s float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality—talk, footsteps, slamming doors—which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt