sporadic
IPA: spɝˈædɪk
adjective
- (archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
- Rare and scattered in occurrence.
- Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
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Examples of "sporadic" in Sentences
- Postings to the blog are sporadic.
- The position evolved sporadically.
- I'll be online sporadically the rest of the day.
- The band is continuing to play sporadically in the US.
- HSV is the most common cause of sporadic encephalitis.
- Such elision is rare or sporadic in the other dialects.
- I removed the sporadic examples at the end of the article.
- Early on, the success of the anarchist movement was sporadic.
- The problems continued sporadically into the third generation.
- In the meantime, why is the Dhimmi article sporadically unavailable
- He was lying on his side taking in his breath in short sporadic heaves.
- They've done a good job in reaching out to what we call sporadic voters.
- And so -- yeah, we met [at the Republican National Convention] and kind of kept in sporadic touch and then met up Christmas last year.
- He attempted occasional comebacks, but the last 40 years of his career were spent in sporadic engagements in Las Vegas and in second-tier concert halls.
- Guards at the U.N. compound and Afghan policemen who responded to the site engaged in sporadic gun fights with the three attackers, who were killed by Afghan security forces.
- But the forward element of the 1st Battalion 7th Marines has pushed into this troubled area and they have reported what they call sporadic fighting that has been taking place up there.
- And so I think it's a whole new paradigm for pollsters right now, because they're not sure how to reach these new voters and what they call sporadic voters, which the Obama campaign really thinks they're getting to.