Example Sentences

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These words he spoke feebly, interruptedly, but distinctly.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

They have very lately sat in the Colchester Committee as many, within one or two, days successively as have been spent in this trial interruptedly in the course of two years.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Martha enters with him; she is stirring something in a bowl, and during the following continues to do so, though more and more interruptedly and absent-mindedly.

From The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts by Moody, William Vaughn

Seed suspended.—Perennial herbs, with interruptedly pinnate leaves, and yellow flowers in slender spiked racemes; bracts 3-cleft.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

I am glad that I have from time to time penned down a few remarks by way of diary, although it has been done interruptedly and very imperfectly.

From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John