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occasional English
Meaning occasional meaning
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Simple sentences
Yuriko thoroughly enjoyed her occasional secret meetings with her lover.
There was occasional laughter.
Tomorrow's weather should be sunny with occasional rain.
Man is a predator with occasional human methods.
Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices.
I have occasional pains in the stomach.
Cloudy with occasional rain.
Even superheroes need an occasional break.
Movie subtitles
And the occasional procedural drama like Bones.
Not that much of an adventurer, he only gets occasional attacks.
Yet you must admit I can't prevent you two from occasional contact.
People flatter her so much she enjoys an occasional change.
It was never used much, except for occasional visitors.
Well, except for occasional trouble with my left sinus, I am in excellent physical condition.
Room and board free. fifty cents a week for cigarettes. an occasional ticket to a show or a concert.
Our hearts are God's garden, with just an occasional weed.
One could forgive an occasional outburst or demonstration of impatience from her.
Of course, in the past nobody came but an occasional old soldier.
You talk about him as if he had occasional bad manners.
A librarian doesn't encounter much violence except an occasional encyclopedia falling.
He'll be so sorry to have missed one of our very few occasional visitors.
Just occasional odd jobs.
Well, don't preach wisdom to me. You talk about him as if he had occasional bad manners.
I will ask for no more than an occasional handful of peanuts.
One of the joys of being independent. is to buy an occasional bottle for a dissolute friend.
He was convinced that. an occasional failure with the animals. didn't necessarily mean. that the nutrient would fail with humans.
There was nothing to be heard, save the occasional murmur of soldiers' voices and the crunch of boots on the loose soil.
On these occasional excursions into the night, did you always return home alone?
The actual battle can't start until then. Oh, there'll be an occasional sortie feeling out our defences.
She has occasional escorts but is mostly seen with Tony Danton, her present costar.
I've heard of married couples who deliberately spend an occasional night in a cheap hotel.
An old man should have the occasional privilege of gratifying himself.
The phenomena are entitled to occasional delays.
It was never used much except for occasional visitors.
A pat on the head, an occasional hug, absent-minded kiss now and then.
You talk about him as if he had occasional bad manners. No.
Not one of us here has any work. Just occasional odd jobs.
You don't think those occasional girls.
Yes, I do think those occasional girls!
It was courage, skill and speed against hostile Indians, bandits, hell and occasional high water.
Just a couple of old smoothies on the loose again. communicating with nobody but each other and an occasional deck steward.
Everybody looked the other way, everybody kept his mouth shut nobody got hurt, except maybe an occasional fly.
News and current affairs
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
Advisory committees might have been vulnerable to occasional stacking of this kind in the past.
Core samples from the Greenland ice cap, for example, show occasional sudden drops in temperature.
One is that despite occasional shows of unity, European countries retain very different views on foreign policy and do not want to delegate this prerogative.
They will gradually reorient their growth models to make them more sustainable - an effort that occasional bouts of global financial-market instability will shake, but not derail.
Granted, transatlantic diversity might cause occasional squabbles.
This will not change. A stronger EU is America's natural partner, occasional competitor, but certainly not a rival.
Despite occasional invitations to consult, they are de-facto excluded from participating in decisions about the EU's future structure, federalist or not.
With his over-familiarity, simplicity, and occasional vulgarity, Sarkozy undermined the dignity of his sacred function.
For example, your occasional illusionary perception of your name spoken in a crowd occurs because this utterance is uniquely important.
Then per capita income soared, increasing year after year, interrupted only by the occasional effects of cyclical fluctuations.
Such anxieties seem natural with NATO war planes flying overhead after their bomb runs, with the occasional stray bomb hitting as nearby as a Sofia suburb.
Talks continue to this day, but despite the occasional newspaper headline announcing a deal, the Sudanese government has been using every opportunity to delay or to attempt to add conditions to the force's mandate.
But, notwithstanding the occasional bust-ups, Korean and Taiwanese democracies seem remarkably robust.
The result should help India to continue - not without occasional turbulence - its journey toward becoming a high-growth economy that raises the standard and quality of life for the poor.
Researchers (including at my laboratory) have investigated how the body naturally handles the occasional release of hemoglobin from aging red blood cells and from cells affected by blood diseases, such as hemolytic anemia.
A stronger EU is America's natural partner, occasional competitor, but certainly not a rival.
Scandinavian countries have their share of problems, such as Denmark's significant xenophobic extreme right and Norway's occasional bouts of provincial puritanism.
A similar bias arises from the occasional tendency to view political patronage elsewhere as being more corrupt than the same practices at home.
Soon, it became clear that even the best human chess players would have little chance to do better than an occasional draw.
Advisory committees might have been vulnerable to occasional stacking of this kind in the past. After all, they recommend the policies that politicians may or may not want to consider.
The agreement was shaped by Anglo-American dialogue, with occasional mediation from France and Canada.
The occasional argument that it is a genuine Lebanese political movement, tied to Iran but ultimately Lebanese, is simply wrong.
An occasional dusting of window frames and doorframes is extremely effective.
The US president should keep an eye on the calendar of the European Council, which brings the EU presidents and prime ministers together four times a year, and solicit an occasional invitation.