Meanings of talked intermittently in English

They had talked intermittently, and he had told her his name.

He walked in silence while Piers talked intermittently of various impersonal matters, drifting at length into silence himself.

They smoked their cigars and talked intermittently then; they were close enough together to be silent when they chose.

Milly regarded this new abode as merely temporary-theyhad taken it for only one year-andthey talked intermittently of moving.

He was gleeful at the performance of his much-improved translator and, after remembering that the octospiders were deaf, he talked intermittently throughout the performance.