alternately
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
He approves of credit, too, despite the human proclivity to alternately gorge and fast on loans and bonds and mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
“Christy,” an alternately exuberant and disturbing biopic, charts her path from that moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Reading the letters, I was alternately thrilled that so many people had bothered to write and sunk low by such overwhelming evidence of Britain’s stupidity and indifference.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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