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How to use periodically in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Periodically means in a manner that is regular or periodic. Example: “The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.”

Examples of periodically by meaning

adverbIn a manner that is regular or periodic.

  • Put two encasings on a mattress if one must be removed periodically for cleaning.2008, Jeffrey C. May, Connie L. May, Jeff May’s Healthy Home Tips, page 124

adverbIntermittently or recurrently.

  • The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.2025 March 10, Karina Tsui, Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”...

More sentences with periodically

  • The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.From the entry english
  • The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.From the entry silty
  • They spot check the rooms periodically for problems.From the entry spot check
  • Villages which practiced warichi periodically reassigned land to local farmers.From the entry warichi
  • The server pings its affiliates periodically.From the entry ping
  • This can of bug spray says that it is nontoxic to humans and pets and that you should periodically reapply it to your arms and clothing as needed.From the entry bug spray
  • Flames periodically shoot upwards from the robata grill in the open kitchen.2023 September 23, John Thornill, “Let’s break the Silicon Valley monopoly”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry robata
  • Do not forget to wax down your bowstring periodically, as well.2016, Douglas Boze, The Ultimate Guide to Black Bear Hunting. From the entry wax down
  • Researchers have focused on various manufactured periodically nonhomogeneous dielectric materials, including rugate filters and periodically multilayered materials.2013, John Polo, Tom Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Electromagnetic Surface Waves: A Modern Perspective, page 193. From the entry rugate
  • Calls to nominate the worst mission statement appear periodically on the Web.2007 September 23, Kelley Holland, “In Mission Statements, Bizspeak and Bromides”, in New York Times. From the entry bizspeak
  • Just park them in nonjobs, and periodically sweep the nonjobs out with a reengineering study.2002, Sam Hill, Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes, page 205. From the entry nonjob
  • Periodically I ozoned the first-floor bathroom, but it still made us sick.1997, Robert Sampson, Patricia Hughes, Breaking Out of Environmental Illness. From the entry ozone
  • The desert returns after you leave Keriya, and dunes periodically threaten the road.1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306. From the entry Keriya
  • I used to be numbered among the Milquetoasts and was periodically used or flattened!1988, Muriel Larson, Me and My Pet Peeves, Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry milquetoast
  • While periodically operatin test switch reduce R2 (increasing ramp) until specified value is reached without mistrigger.1986, Anthony Bishop, Solid-state Relay Handbook with Applications, page 171. From the entry mistrigger
  • Pattern, however, can be achieved by periodically changing the direction of the wales.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, pages 66-67. From the entry wale
  • Sludges produced at C must be periodically clamshelled out & transferred to controlled landfill.1979, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Effluent Guidelines Division, Draft Development Document for the Iron and Steel…. From the entry clamshell
  • The device should be periodically tested by overspeeding the engine say once a month.1949, A. C. Walshaw, Heat Engines (3 ed.). From the entry overspeed
  • The poor woggins were also periodically kept alive for a few months in Louis XVI's menagerie at Versailles.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81. From the entry woggin
  • Turn the cookies over periodically to dry both sides evenly.2019, “Activity: Tree Cookies”, in Project Learning Tree, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2024. From the entry tree cookie
  • There is a school of thought that says you should periodically fix these issues ahead of the showstopping bugs.2016, Steven Goodwin, Polished Game Development: From First Steps to Final Release, Apress, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry showstopping
  • My companion knew the lessons better, but periodically when a melancholy feeling came over him, he let me do the teaching.2015 May 7, Ignacio M. García, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry golden contact
  • There is no complexity expressed in the feverish discussions of white privilege that periodically grips South Africa's chattering class.2013 October 21, Azad Essa, “South Africa's 'miracle transition' has not put an end to white privilege”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media…. From the entry privilege
  • When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or dragnetted and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.2013, Brian Andrews, Ornamental Fish Farming. From the entry dragnet
  • From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763. From the entry kick
  • Periodically check the bite with the uppers and lowers to ensure that your actor's mouth will close correctly.2012, Todd Debreceni, Special Make-up Effects for Stage & Screen. From the entry upper
  • Baganuur has a couple of surprisingly nice hotels, which cater to the foreign technical advisors who periodically inspect the mine.2002, Claire Sermier, “Central Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN…. From the entry Baganuur
  • Usually Methodists dealt with this problem by having their ministers "ride the circuit" by periodically visiting homes and class meetings.2001, Catherine L. Albanese, American Spiritualities: A Reader, page 191. From the entry ride the circuit
  • Felling for the navy continued for the remainder of the century and, periodically, during the 18th and into the 19th century.2001, Colin R. Tubbs, The New Forest: History, Ecology & Conservation, 2nd edition, Lyndhurst, Hants.: New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust…. From the entry doddard
  • The huge quantity of landings was periodically causing fish prices to crash, creating unprecedented havoc in the marketplace.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 132. From the entry landing
  • Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.1996, Rolf Ludvigsen, chapter 4, in Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry exuviate
  • Attempting to block the police van's path, protesters periodically surrounded the vehicle and eventually flattened one of its tires.1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry flatten
  • Their father hasn't contributed except periodically to their support.1980 April 12, M. Amish, “The Right to Be a Parent”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry woman-identified-woman
  • Nearly one-fourth indicated, on the other hand, that it was no longer necessary to burn the woods periodically; certainly not unregulatedly.1965, Louisiana Bulletin, numbers 588-606, page 27. From the entry unregulatedly
  • They are emptied periodically and the collected bits are used for confetti at weddings, parties, and other festive occasions.1964, Donald I. Cutler, chapter 6, in Introduction to Computer Programming, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, footnote 1, page…. From the entry bit bucket
  • Ideas of democratic freedom periodically lived, and were periodically buried under years of oppressive sales resistance and dictatorial domination.1957, Charles E. Irvin, How to sell yourself, your ideas, your products, page 18. From the entry sales resistance
  • These officials shall meet periodically at the chief town of the district for the discharge of current business.1930 May 14, “Organic Statute of the Government of the Jebel Druse, Promulgated by Decree of the High Commissioner of the French Republic…. From the entry mukhtar
  • They doodled chalk messages of “rest in power” and “be the change” along the sidewalk, and periodically broke out in chants: “Say his name!2020 June 10, Vivian Ho, “'He'll change the world': George Floyd's family pays emotional tribute as crowds flock to funeral”, in The…. From the entry rest in power

Meaning of periodically

  1. adverb In a manner that is regular or periodic.
  2. adverb Intermittently or recurrently.

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Questions about periodically in a sentence

How do you use periodically in a sentence?
Periodically is used as an adverb. For example: “The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.”
What is a short sentence with periodically?
“The server pings its affiliates periodically.”
What does periodically mean?
Periodically means in a manner that is regular or periodic.

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