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

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

However, the revival of a dual playmaker shape that worked fitfully under Eddie Jones has potential weaknesses.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024

And they are gambits that this fitfully intriguing, sometimes wide-eyed documentary, directed by Ido Mizrahy, takes seriously.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

I sleep fitfully and wake up in the deep dark of the night, my worries blowing like a blinding storm through my head.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko