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How to use episodic in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Episodic means relating to an episode. Example: “Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.”

Examples of episodic by meaning

adjectiveRelating to an episode.

  • When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.1999, The Limey (movie)

adjectiveSporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly.

  • Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.

adjectiveConsisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.

  • I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?

More sentences with episodic

  • On the contrary: I am an episodic rather than a narrativist writer.2015 October 13, Jonathan Buckley, “Jonathan Buckley: 'My novel is a mirrored room'”, in The Guardian. From the entry narrativist
  • It is characterized by hydrophobia, aerophobia, and episodic generalized arousal interrupted by periods of lucidity.2011 September 22, Daniel D. Truong, Robert P. Lisak, Roongroj Bhidayasiri, William Carroll, International Neurology, →ISBN, page 321. From the entry aerophobia
  • Episodic experience edges one toward the certainty, i.e., the ‘unculturality’, of nature, thus enhancing authority.2003, Derek Pomeroy Brereton, Kinship and Landscape at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry unculturality
  • The lowest potency that controls signs should be used, and topical steroids are usually reserved for treatment of episodic flares.2013, Susan Rowen James, Kristine Ann Nelson, Jean Weiler Ashwill, “The Child with Major Alterations in Tissue Integrity”, in Nursing Care…. From the entry flare
  • They are acceptable in characterizing sentences, in modal contexts including partitives and with subtrigging in affirmative episodic contexts.1998, Veneeta Dayal, “"Any" as Inherently Modal”, in Linguistics and Philosophy, volume 21, number 5, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 469. From the entry subtrigging
  • In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.1992, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, “The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal”, in Kathryn…. From the entry picaresque
  • The proposed pathophysiology in our case could be loud laugh induced Valsalva maneuver raising intra-abdominal and intra-thoracic pressure momentarily causing venous congestion of head presenting as episodic headache.2022 February 15, Bob Daripa, Scott Lucchese, “Laugh Headache, Not a Joke! A Case Report”, in Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, editors…. From the entry Valsalva maneuver
  • It was a look at the twenty-something party lifestyle, broken down into episodic chapters and addressing such unprincessy subjects as drugs, clubs, alcohol and one-night stands.2017, Emily Herbert, “Fame Awaits”, in Harry & Meghan: The Love Story, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry unprincessy
  • Connections from the amygdala to long-term memory and working memory and attention circuits are also reentrantly engaged, facilitating retrieval of semantic and episodic memories of the threat.2015, Joseph LeDoux, Anxious: The Modern Mind in the Age of Anxiety, London: Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry reentrantly

Meaning of episodic

  1. adjective Relating to an episode.
  2. adjective Sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly.
  3. adjective Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.

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Questions about episodic in a sentence

How do you use episodic in a sentence?
Episodic is used as an adjective. For example: “Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.”
What is a short sentence with episodic?
“On the contrary: I am an episodic rather than a narrativist writer.”
What does episodic mean?
Episodic means relating to an episode.

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