alternate
verb (used without object)
to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually followed bywith ).
alternatingly
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a word derived from
alternate.
Example Sentences
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A version from 2011, on view in “Forothermore,” an alternatingly beautiful and deeply mournful survey of Cave’s work at the Guggenheim, illustrates how the soundsuits evolved since, into nearly autonomous beings.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
The tragic events propel a story that is alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
Don’t lie beside Jordan and his new girlfriend, watching them sleep, imbuing their bed with a subtle chill, making them alternatingly get up to close the window, only to discover that the window isn’t open.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 16, 2018
The result is alternatingly hypnotic, lulling, restless and, yes, just plain boring.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2017
He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
