stop-start

[stahp-stahrt]

adjective

1. repeatedly stopping and starting again; involving many interruptions; erratic.

Example Sentences

Bethell's summer has also been stop-start.

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Mark Wood and Olly Stone have missed the entire Test summer, young back-ups like Josh Hull and Sonny Baker have had stop-start seasons.

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Trying to make it up three stories to the top level of the building involved multiple stop-start instances that required me to freeze in my tracks so as not to bump into people who halted in the middle of the walkway between escalators to look down at their phones.

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Boulter, 28, has been the nation's leading women's player since June 2023, but has dropped down the world rankings in a stop-start season.

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Neto has had a stop-start season, but he passed the eye test on Saturday and was unlucky not to score.

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