alternately
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Flippases such as MurJ move molecules by alternately exposing them to each side of the membrane without forming a permanent opening.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
The way “asses.masses” shifted tones and tenor recalled a game such as “Kentucky Route Zero,” another serialized and alternately realistic and fanciful game with political overtones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Those “you’s” are alternately or simultaneously specific and universal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Coal kept his eyes alternately on his phone and the landscape of New Jersey rolling past.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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