on occasion

1. From time to time, now and then, as in Nell has been known to eat meat on occasion. This usage, first in the form of upon occasion, replaced by occasion about 1600.

Example Sentences

Comic strips and radio were among the family’s affordable pleasures but on occasion, his mother Martha took her son to the Aero theater.

From Los Angeles Times

The committee of MPs ask fairly tough questions, but they don't grandstand for the cameras in the way that some previous members used to on occasion.

From BBC

He butted heads with them and on occasion won them over.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s no longer constrained by what little caution and niceties he may have once had, or by officials and staffers who managed to, at least on occasion, thwart his cruelest instincts.

From Salon

This has been Morgan Rogers and Curtis Jones on occasion.

From BBC

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