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Fitful meaning
Characterized by fits (convulsions or seizures). | Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.
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Example sentences (9)
The fitful weather made it difficult to procure the right volumes and quality of fruit and vegetables.
He then earned his corn for second time early on the resumption to dash the Blues’ hopes of a lifeline after Juninho Bacuna profited from some fitful defending by Firpo.
How could that not be considered part of a “crusade,” even if a fitful and failing one?
After a fitful night of sleep, I resolved to go back and to beg Mechilla.
The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.
It can also be uncomfortable for children, making babies fussier and more fitful sleepers, which is stressful for parents.
Although in the end the United States won, this fitful and costly first military conflict exposed immediately some strains and ambiguities in the Framers’ constitutional compromises.
Both the young princess and the fitful and idiosyncratic process we call the were byproducts of Henry’s sexual whims and desperate desire for a male heir.
I like the teasing and the joking that goes on, the shy asymmetrical conversations, the fitful moments of mutual bewilderment and curiosity.