How to Use alternately in a Sentence

alternately

adverb

• Wounds of war have been alternately acknowledged and shrugged off throughout military history.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024
• At the blowing edge, the air alternately flows more to the inside or the outside of the flute.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023
• The writing is alternately pithy and poignant, and certainly not afraid to turn on a dime, as Thoughts do.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 June 2024
• The Lakers alternately attacked the basket or hit 3s in the third.
  — Beth Harris, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• Yeoh is fierce and cutthroat in the role, alternately motherly and vicious from one turn to the next.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Both of them are out at the company their father had alternately promised to them.
  — Vulture, 29 May 2023
• For the biceps, hold a dumbbell in each hand and alternately contract and bring the weight to your chin, then lower slowly.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2022
• With the mixer set on low speed, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternately with the sour cream in three additions.
  — Lisa Zwirn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• Add flour and whipping cream (do NOT whip) alternately and add vanilla.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
• The story is written in first person present tense and told alternately by Kayaliruk and Ibai.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
  — ExpressNews.com, 6 July 2020
• Over an hour and a half, Rodrigo alternately roared and pleaded, stomped and collapsed.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• The case and bracelet are alternately satin-brushed and polished, and there are bevels everywhere, from the bridges to the bezel, and the result is a 3D effect and makes the sand gold appear to change color depending on the light.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• Many leaders, wars, crises, economic booms and busts have alternately shaped, strained, and strengthened this alliance over the past 250 years.
  — TIME, 2 July 2024
• The scores are alternately playful and profound, but all of them are ultimately concerned with the truth.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Jones made only three of nine shots, alternately hounded by Osborne and Jaquez.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• It’s been alternately down-home and glitzy, old-timey and transgressive, demure and provocative.
  — Sarah Hepola, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
• On and off the air, Pendarvis is alternately edgy and shy, depressed and giddy, confident and worried.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
• Police have alternately called the man a suspect and a person of interest.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Over the course of 10 years, she was alternately found competent and then incompetent to stand trial in court.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The answer can be found in the book’s evocative quotes, alternately mordant and macabre, many of which come from the photographer’s grandmother.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov Zoey Poll Caitie Kelly Devorah Lev-Tov Elinor Hitt Jinnie Lee, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The band was part of a wave of earnest pop-rock that crossed genres, alternately praised as deft and open-hearted, or denigrated by critics as toothless soft-rock.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 25 July 2024
• When the original film was released in the summer of 2016, the culture was still throwing cash at the alternately shocking and sweet shenanigans of Seth Rogen‘s budding bro-euvre.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• His keen tenor narrated the events of Jesus’ last hours in tones alternately amazed, anxious and horrified.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
• What stays the same, year after year, though: The tennis tribe (or, alternately, the Honey Deuce tribe) gathering together to celebrate the greatest game on Earth in the greatest city in the world.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• Gordy and Robinson alternately stood and applauded and clapped along, sometimes singing as well, while the artists sampled the vast Motown catalog.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2023
• Walters alternately suggested this month that the state take over Tulsa’s schools.
  — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Add flour mixture and milk alternately to sugar/yolk mixture.
  — Karl Merton Ferron, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• In Drive-Away Dolls the conflict between love and choice is alternately dumbfounding and satirical.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024