How to Use infrequent in a Sentence

infrequent

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• We made infrequent stops along the way.
• But there are few transit routes to these jobs, and those that do run are infrequent.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Bear sightings are infrequent but not unheard of in the region.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2020
• Both high temp refusals and travel zone refusals have been exceptionally infrequent.
  — The Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• Residents say the mail is either infrequent or unreliable.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• Regular visits for preventive care may justify the cost of a wellness plan, whereas infrequent visits might not.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
• Those who can't find nearby accommodations or who can no longer access public transit to get to work have tried to use the infrequent shuttles the company provides.
  — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2020
• These moments are infrequent, but well-earned, narratively and emotionally.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
• Prior to the pandemic briefings, his press conferences were infrequent, his stagecraft tightly controlled.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• Unable to tour, artists—including some known for their exacting standards and infrequent releases—are opening their vaults, releasing demos, live albums and reissues of classics.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• For most of that time, the spells were infrequent, maybe once a month.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• But this year the long ball has been too infrequent up and down the lineup.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2021
• All of which can be hard to pick up over Zoom, patchy phone calls, or infrequent emails.
  — Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The case is ongoing, but the court dates are infrequent.
  — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Many of us feel our social skills are still rusty from a year of infrequent use.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Both Biden and Trump brought in new and infrequent voters.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 1 July 2021
• Fires were once infrequent in the Mojave Desert and smaller in size.
  — Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• But with busy schedules and the dramatic ramp-up of miles, the checks were infrequent.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• By now, the rain has slowed from pounding fists to the soft, infrequent tapping of bored fingers, and Olivia sighs and abandons the shed.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2021
• While such storms are infrequent, the Leonids are worth watching during the peak Nov. 17-18 and can be seen in both hemispheres.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2024
• And over the course of their infrequent reunions on Earth, the daughter gets older while the mother remains the same.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• Views of the low-lying coast are infrequent, but the joy of this ride comes from reveling in dozens of short scenic loops off U.S. Route 1.
  — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
• And nobody bothers to teach it, so between the parking lot and the lifts, novice and infrequent skiers are left to figure it out.
  — Bill Gifford, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2022
• Moab is a high desert that gets infrequent rain—hence the sparse vegetation.
  — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• School shootings are infrequent in Russia, but the Perm attack was the third in recent years.
  — Jim Heintz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021
• That learning process has been too slow and too infrequent this season.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• Maka Ali, the 70-year-old deputy leader of the camp, said visits by aid agencies are infrequent.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Injuries and infrequent major-league stints dimmed hype around the former first-round pick.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2022
• Protests have been infrequent over the past two years but homelessness has overwhelmed the Old Town neighborhood and spilled across the city’s core.
  — oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
• Other contributing factors include infrequent changes, diarrhea, and friction from tight diapers.
  — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024