fitfully

IPA: fˈɪtfʌɫi

Examples of "fitfully" in Sentences

The father, sleeping fitfully, is talking to himself.
The numbers of buyers and sellers remain fitfully small.
I slept fitfully, although fitfully is perhaps not the right word.
Now and again fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.
The outside air was full of sweet, wholesome springtime sounds that drifted in fitfully.
So early on a Sunday morning the neighborhood has a hushed, abandoned feel to it, which contrasts sharply with the joyful noise that spills fitfully out of Bethel as its doors open and close for entering worshippers.
Rajah’s compound called fitfully into view the ragged trunks of the surrounding trees, putting a stain of glowing red half-way across the river where the drifting logs were hurrying towards the sea through the impenetrable gloom.
Only the fire of dry branches lit outside the stockade of the Rajah's compound called fitfully into view the ragged trunks of the surrounding trees, putting a stain of glowing red half-way across the river where the drifting logs were hurrying towards the sea through the impenetrable gloom.
The states, ever reluctant to burden their citizens with taxes and conscription, only fitfully provided money, men, and supplies for the Continental Army; and soldiers, suffering from repeated neglect, deserted or mutinied, especially after France entered the war and Americans, anticipating victory, became preoccupied with local and private affairs.