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
Here, rather like the Chicago stockyards, thousands of dairy cows are fed in crowded feedlots by a method called intensive and dry-lot feeding, or, alternately, kept indoors in barns.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Early on, the beats are spiky and distorted, and Rocky seems alternately irritated and angry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
I have moved out a bit farther into the shallows, floating alternately on my belly and back.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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