How to Use infrequent in a Sentence

infrequent

adjective

• We made infrequent stops along the way.
• 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
• The app is a gift for frequent and infrequent fliers alike.
  — Natalie B. Compton, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• 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
• But the events at the Autry were too infrequent to nurture a sense of belonging.
  — Renée Reizman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• But there are few transit routes to these jobs, and those that do run are infrequent.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Full moons on Fridays are infrequent; the last one was 2006.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• 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
• But Trump was able to turn out infrequent voters there in 2020, and did well in much of the rest of the state, which is rural and more conservative.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• Bear sightings are infrequent but not unheard of in the region.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The few and infrequent actions she’s taken since the election have seemed like First Lady Mad Libs.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 21 June 2018
• The trophy bears the scores of games between the two former Dallas neighbors, which are, alas, infrequent.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 July 2020
• What’s missing is pregame accountability in the form of being aggressive, as well as focusing to a degree on how dumb mistakes are infrequent mistakes.
  — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
• In 2017, after both Barbara's and Helena's spouses died, Fee moved her aging mother out to live on the opposite coast, making visits between the two sisters challenging and infrequent.
  — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025