from time to time
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.89 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "I'll find out your man, / And he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here."
- "On these red embers Hatteraick from time to time threw a handful of twigs."
- "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache."
- "But at my back from time to time I hear / The sound of horns and motors, […]"
- "From time to time in both directions the engine was blowing off, so there was no shortness of steam."
- "From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these."