betweentimes
betweentimes adverb: in an interim period; meanwhile.
Adverb
betweentimes (not comparable)
- In an interim period; meanwhile.
- But the infant […] impartially offered the great green cucumber pickle with which he regaled his "teething appetite," and with which, betweentimes, he combed his mother's head and wiped the dusty outside of the coach.1905, Ruth McEnery Stuart, "The Romance of Chinkapin Castle" in The Second Wooing of Salina Sue & Other Stories (1969 Garrett Press reprint), p. 192 (Google preview)
- The wharf now is a marina, the torpedo storage sheds, a dining pavilion. Betweentimes the building served as a governmental warehouse, holding everything from Nuremberg war trial records to dinosaur bones.1996, Robert Gannon, Hellions of the Deep, page 34
Examples of betweentimes in a sentence
- The public reaction, betweentimes, had been interesting.2014 October 11, Michael Fallow, “Shock and awwwww at deformities”, in Southland Times, New Zealand, retrieved 01 Nov 2015:
- “Betweentimes Miss Lee sees as much as she possibly can of her 4-year-old daughter Nicki.”2015 May 26, Eliza Berman, “See Photos of Peggy Lee as a Rising Star in the 1940s”, in Time, retrieved 01 Nov 2015:
Forms of betweentimes
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Questions about betweentimes
- What does betweentimes mean?
- Betweentimes means in an interim period; meanwhile.
- How do you use betweentimes in a sentence?
- The public reaction, betweentimes, had been interesting.
- What part of speech is betweentimes?
- Betweentimes is an adverb.
Words near betweentimes in the dictionary
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