What is "alternates"

Usage examples of "alternates".

Rek alternates between the bellows and the grindstone, where he is finishing edges on blades for wood planes.

I get angry enough in a fight, or pushed hard enough, and my alternates start popping in out of nowhere to save my butt.

Hazel had no idea why some alternates turned up rather than others, or even what they really were.

Hazel got bored walking with Owen, who was too busy brooding to do more than grunt in response to her conversational sallies, and in the end she moved up to walk with her two alternates.

He didn't like the possessive way the two alternates looked at him, or the way Hazel grinned when she noticed it.

Owen hoped Hazel and her alternates would continue to take their lead from him and not start anything.

That she didn't need to call up alternates of herself, and see them die over and over again.

Bonnie and Midnight had made her alternates real to her as never before.

Hazel d'Ark had made herself a doorway through which an endless stream of alternates could appear, for as long as they were needed, or for as long as Hazel d'Ark could stand it.

Our cycle's very nearly reached its conclusion, and our alternates will be waking soon.

Perhaps the ending for "(s)he" alternates between -s and -ryë just like the ending for "I" may appear as either -n or -nyë.

One educated guess has it that this -s alternates with a longer form -ryë (plausibly extrapolated from the possessive ending -rya "his/her"), but only the attested ending -s is used in the exercises below.

The magus alternates between studying the younger men in the compartment, although his observations of Lorn are less intense, as if he has already decided Lorn is scarcely worthy of attention.

Then he alternates mouthfuls of the hot lamb and barley with slices of peach.

Saul alternates between being relieved and appalled that life continues as it always has despite the fact that he and Miriam only see each other at dinner and then only if she arrives home in time to eat.