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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
occasionally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
appear
▪ Matthew appeared occasionally in riding clothes, and what was more, kept horses somewhere at the back of the house.
▪ There would appear occasionally, in his talk and press releases, hints and bits of intellectual phrasing.
▪ Yet old farmers say that Frederick does still live, and that he occasionally appears disguised as a pilgrim.
▪ He had an office on the fortieth floor, he appeared occasionally in the newspapers, but one never actually saw him.
▪ Thankfully the floating grey pods which occasionally appear contain handy weapon power-ups and extra lives.
break
▪ Outside there are scudding clouds, but they are high up and the sun occasionally breaks through.
▪ The silence was broken occasionally by a muffled gasp or a quivering sigh that was more like the hiss of air brakes.
▪ The only sound was her father's heavy breathing, occasionally broken by a snore.
▪ Still, even there lightness would occasionally break through.
▪ A marriage occasionally broke up because the wife asked for too much.
▪ Dogs began to bark, triggering a rallying cry, a droning chorus broken occasionally by one or other's high-pitched howling.
▪ This is broken occasionally where farm tracks cut into the fields.
▪ Unfortunately coaches are not infallible and do occasionally break down or need replacing and certain on board facilities may occasionally fail.
find
▪ You may occasionally find you drop quite a bit of weight fairly suddenly.
▪ But his ideology was unconfined by party lines, occasionally finding him allied with the likes of Sen.
▪ Larger and more ambitious binoculars can be found occasionally.
occur
▪ Jejunal secretion is, however, known to occasionally occur in healthy subjects.
▪ Yet our system could not work without judges to correct the miscarriages of justice that occasionally occur in a jury trial.
▪ It contributes to the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis and only occasionally occurs in sufficient numbers to cause clinical disease on its own.
▪ L3-4 herniated disks occur occasionally, but levels higher than this are exceedingly rare.
▪ The Eriophorum is frequent or abundant in bog pools dominated by Sphagnum species in which other vascular plant species only occur occasionally.
▪ Seizures occasionally occur in patients taking theophylline for control of bronchial asthma.
▪ Perhaps, as in humans, immunisation occasionally occurs during the first pregnancy, and the 8 percent refers to these foals.
▪ Nausea, visual impairment, or headache occasionally occur.
stir
▪ Cook, stirring constantly until thickened; about 2 minutes. 4 Cool, stirring occasionally to prevent a skin forming.
▪ Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes or until tender but not brown.
▪ Place in a hot heavy-based pan or wok and cook until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.
▪ Reduce heat to low; cook 3 to 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally.
▪ Stir in milk and soup and heat until bubbling, stirring occasionally.
▪ Cook over medium-low heat 3 to 4 minutes, or until well-blended, stirring occasionally.
▪ Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until all the water from the beans has evaporated.
▪ Add peanuts and cook to 280 degrees. Stir occasionally and continue cooking to 305 degrees.
use
▪ Its toxicity has severely limited its use as an antiulcer drug but either it or its analogues are occasionally used clinically.
▪ Monamine oxidase inhibitors are used occasionally in migraine patients who are refractory to other prophylactic drugs.
▪ Smile sweetly and use the Press when you need them, smile sweetly and grit your teeth when they occasionally use you.
▪ Another strategy that Cooley uses occasionally is the analogy between things that are very different in most respects.
▪ The firm now concentrates on search, only occasionally using selection.
▪ The Ducks and Kings for the game each debuted new jerseys, which will be used occasionally.
▪ At the other end, a training manager may occasionally use some basic sampling methods and various evaluation techniques incorporating statistical methods.
▪ They had in mind a back entrance occasionally used by delivery trucks in the dead of night.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Occasionally we go out to restaurants, but mostly we eat at home.
▪ He lives in Australia now, so we only see him very occasionally.
▪ He still occasionally goes out to bars.
▪ Kay's moods sometimes made life difficult, and occasionally impossible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add seitan and spices; cook, stirring occasionally until seitan is browned, about 3 to 5 minutes.
▪ He just climbed up into his cabin, still grinning, occasionally giggling, and started his engine.
▪ He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out.
▪ Let stand 2 hours or preferably longer, blending occasionally.
▪ My stomach still bothers me occasionally.
▪ Reduce heat, and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until volume is reduced by half, approximately 20 minutes.
▪ Sometimes this would be a church hall, sometimes a Territorial Army drill hall, occasionally even a London Transport recreation room.
▪ The prefects also kicked you, as a rule with the inside of the shoe, but occasionally you felt the toe.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Occasionally

Occasionally \Oc*ca"sion*al*ly\, adv. In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
--Stewart.

The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment.
--Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
occasionally

c.1400, "happening on some particular occasion," also "sometimes, happening as occasion presents itself, without regularity," from occasional + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
occasionally

adv. From time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly; at infrequent intervals.

WordNet
occasionally

adv. now and then or here and there; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention" [syn: on occasion, once in a while, now and then, now and again, at times, from time to time]

Usage examples of "occasionally".

That quest was abetted by a sympathetic schoolteacher, Rebecca, who saw in the lad a glimmering hope that occasionally there might be resurrection from a bitter life sentence in the emotionally barren and aesthetically vitiated Kentucky hamlet, and who ultimately seduced him.

But more evidence is necessary before we fully admit that the glands of this saxifrage can absorb, even with ample time allowed, animal matter from the minute insects which they occasionally and accidentally capture.

It breathed and blew bubbles and occasionally caressed an agate or two with its prehensile limbs.

The princess, for her part, seemed to enjoy the attention of the foreign prince, talking with him animatedly and occasionally even laughing softly, something Ager had never heard her do before.

Barry and I occasionally joked about the faith thing, about his being a True Believer and me the quintessential agnostic, a secular humanist.

But they paid their taxes to us, albeit with complaining, and we had to discipline them only occasionally, so we managed.

Vieta in France first applied letters as general symbols of quantity, though the earlier algebraists used them occasionally, chiefly as abbreviations.

I had occasionally found myself wondering when the Amalgamation would ask something more of me than Mediating, something along the lines of what other empaths had been asked to do.

But on the other hand, Ana had always found Bee frus-tratingly shallow and occasionally downright cruel.

I occasionally tried standing up, stretching, swivelling like Olympic atheletes do after gulping their anabolic steroids before track events, but you get fed up with fitness so I sat down again.

Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and- now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it- set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.

The Archdeacon walked along, meditating, and occasionally turning his head to look over his shoulder.

Russian spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky argued a century ago that there must be bodies intermediate ill size between the observed large asteroids and those asteroidal fragments, the meteorites, that occasionally fall to Earth.

Curious, but not atypical of the scientific mind that occasionally forgot it was dealing with human beings.

Occasionally, as the afternoon waned beyond the portals of the aviary and she would be required to return to the Sanctuary, he would begin thinking of the hopelessness of the situation and a chill would work its way into the base of his spine and crawl upwards along his back like a spider.