Off-and-on Synonyms

Intermittently stopping and starting
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. now-and-again
  2. now-and-then
  3. fitful
  4. sometimes
  5. occasionally
  6. interrupted
Not regularly
Synonyms:
  1. on-and-off
  2. alternately
  3. at irregular intervals
  4. fluctuating
  5. hardly
  6. infrequently
  7. intermittent
  8. irregularly
  9. not often
  10. scarcely
  11. sometimes
  12. sporadically
  13. vacillating
  14. variable
  15. very seldom
  16. when the mood strikes

Off-and-on Sentence Examples

  • Nurses came into the room off and on all night to check on Destiny, but she continued to sleep.

  • A'Ran watched her off and on during the several days she spent alone.

  • Sometimes the hardest part of skiing is getting off and on the chair lift.

  • During his school years, he dabbled in music off and on playing for a local band called Soil, but his real focus at this time was making films about surfing.

  • Throughout the 90s, Lloyd Webber toyed off and on with show ideas with the help of novelist Frederick Forsyth.

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