Example Sentences

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Some of fusion’s fitfulness is innate to the design of doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 22, 2022

Its inaugural month, March, can have lamb-and-lion fitfulness, sizzle to drizzle and back again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

I expected maybe an hour’s worth of sleep and a lot of fitfulness.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2014

"Flirting" also echoes the "twirling" of the leaf, suggesting a similar playfulness and fitfulness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012

Even the dull booming of the cannon far up the valley where Howard and Schofield were advancing on the heavy works immediately in front of Dalton, died down into sullen fitfulness.

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John