How to Use fitful in a Sentence

fitful

adjective

• He had a few fitful hours of sleep.
• Several fitful attempts at negotiation have failed.
• Barclays still looks for annual inflation to drift down but the descent could be fitful.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• The third-round pick has had a fitful start to his Ravens career.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• He got used to a few hours of fitful sleep each night, the 63-year-old said Friday.
  — Robin Erb, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2021
• The stakes seem to increase with every fitful change of heart.
  — Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
• For many decades, the advance of gay rights in America was slow and fitful.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• The pace of change here is fitful, and that has not changed during this pandemic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• The next morning, after a few hours of fitful, fretful sleep, the women went through the events again.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• The ping of a voicemail message woke Meyers from a fitful sleep.
  — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• That went missing much of last year in the midst of a fitful pandemic season.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2021
• In Silicon Valley, the tech dreams of many are now fitful.
  — Jon Swartz, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• The result was a fitful flightpath that varied depending on the ball's spin rate and the speed at which it was kicked.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• North Korea is on the cusp of the largest step yet in its budding, fitful engagement with the outside world.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2017
• That night at the bus stop, Fong collapsed into a fitful sleep, his heart strained by the punishing heat of summer in the desert.
  — Fernanda Santos, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, high winds and heavy rains gave Sherry Key a fitful night's sleep.
  — Jeffrey S. Collins, Fox News, 1 June 2018
• The fitful nature of the post-pandemic climb could be seen from Israel to India.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2022
• Retail sales have proven fitful, recovering and ebbing with waves of the virus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Does a character need to have fitful visions of the future after a snakebite?
  — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
• The angel who had appeared to him in his fitful dreams had, unbeknownst to him, never left his side.
  — Joshua Hammer, GQ, 26 July 2017
• Old Faithful starts with a fitful series of hiccups, then shoots water up to 180 feet high.
  — Alex Pulaski, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• The Las Vegas Strip has had a fitful relationship with fine art.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the recovery looks fitful and uneven — and painfully slow.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Walking outside in downtown D.C. after the news was out was like waking up from a fitful sleep.
  — Charlotte Clymer, Glamour, 9 Nov. 2020
• The Army Corps of Engineers has been leading a fitful process to investigate the pollution and clean up the site since 1998.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2022
• But first, there were emotional goodbyes with Hurricanes players, a fitful night of sleep and a choice that changed his life.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• At 4 a.m. after a fitful sleep, Becky woke up and took David’s temperature.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, sacbee.com, 19 June 2017
• The fitful rollout of 5G will provide the necessary bandwidth.
  — Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• At 3:30 in the morning, after a fitful nap that never entered deep sleep, Glennie awoke to the sight of one of the little men on the other side of her bedroom window.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 21 July 2017
• The path to the hostage deal was painful and painstaking, one marked by fitful progress, deep mistrust, terrible choices and moments when the whole thing was on the verge of unraveling.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024