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Significats de fitful en anglès

Intermittently stopping and starting.

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Occurring in spells and often abruptly.

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Examples for "interrupted"
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He immediately said: 'I'm really sorry I interrupted such an important process.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
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Leveson then interrupted to say: Let me just interpose a question here.
The Guardian
3
Any potential answer was interrupted when Strike became aware of their approach.
Wild Storm
4
You interrupted a perfectly good pipe, I'll have you know, young lady.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
5
The open state was always interrupted by flickering to the closed state.
Pubmed
1
On Tuesday they recover family pictures and mementos, all soaked by off-and-on rain.
Reuters
2
I worked off-and-on for Calvin Carriker all the years we lived at Royston.
The Life of Me: An Autobiography
3
I wasn't prepared to hear that my off-and-on girlfriend was pregnant.
Ebony
Ús de fitful en anglès
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The wind had abated its violence; coming now in fitful, virulent puffs.
Heart of the West
2
The wind soughed through the pines and cedars in a fitful manner.
Frank Merriwell's Cruise
3
The girl moaned in her fitful sleep and Miss Smith soothed her.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
4
Some fitful sleep came to her at last in the morning hours.
Marriage à la mode
5
They had a few fitful naps throughout the remainder of the night.
Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the...
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The fitful firelight only served to emphasize the intensity of surrounding darkness.
The Heart of Unaga
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In the fitful light Suth glimpsed fallen bodies, broken rock and equipment.
Stonewielder
8
The sail, scarcely filled by the fitful breeze, flapped against the mast.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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The light was fitful, and dark shadows flickered on the dosshouse walls.
Creatures That Once Were Men
10
A green, fitful illumination was cast by lights set in the walls.
The darkest road
11
From the ballroom, faint and fitful, came the music of a waltz.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
12
Nature looked disturbed and fitful, and the ship responded to her mood.
The Wings of the Morning
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And, in a fitful or superficial sense, he must have been so.
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
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The Bertolucci is unbelievably squalid and Starting Over is fitful at best.
The Irish Times
15
Here there is a fitful lamp which makes one prefer the darkness.
The New Book of Martyrs
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Her night had been fitful, plagued by wraithlike dreams not fully formed.
Dark pursuit
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