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Meanings of come intermittently in English

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Usage of come intermittently in English
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The noise of the cutter came intermittently, like the breaking of waves.
Howards End
2
And the idea that he was deceiving himself came intermittently charging back.
En Route
3
The sound of the piano upstairs came intermittently to his ears.
The Market-Place
4
All the light there was came intermittently from whip-like lightning flashes across the sky.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
5
The municipality comes intermittently to fix the burst pipes, but the fixes don't last long, she said.
Reuters
6
The wheeze of a veteran Airedale with its chin on the head of a lion came intermittently.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
7
But Gold-Eye was seeing something worse, the vision coming intermittently across the barrier of his malfunctioning Deceptor.
Shade's children
8
In other cases the pain comes intermittently or in paroxysms, and is of a darting, stabbing character, or accompanied by tingling sensations.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
9
On that air came intermittently from the distance sounds of the continuing horrible activities of the populace, the aftermath of that bloody day.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
10
You had to shout if you wanted a nurse; the nurses came intermittently and, when they did, regularly complained that the women were disturbing them.
The Guardian