How do you use Occasionally in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Occasionally meaning
- On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
- On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
- On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
Synonyms of Occasionally
Using Occasionally
- The main meaning on this page is: On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes. | On an occasion, accidentally, by chance. | On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
- Useful related words include: on occasion, now and then, now and again, at times.
- In the example corpus, occasionally often appears in combinations such as: and occasionally, stirring occasionally, to occasionally.
Example sentences (20)
Stir the soup occasionally as it simmers, then add the broccoli and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender.
After ten years, Occasionally Yours added in-house dining to their repertoire and became “Occasionally Yours: Catering and Eatery”.
Moderate to occasionally strong winds blowing from the East to Northeast will prevail over the eastern section of Visayas with moderate to occasionally rough seas.
Moderate to occasionally strong winds blowing from the southwest to southeast will prevail over Visayas and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to occasionally rough.
The flow of the album is perfect with short, concise instrumentals that are moving, occasionally minimalistic, occasionally complex, and with lyrics that are honest and heartfelt and don’t dress anything up.
According to specialists, children are occasionally born with an uncommon type of myasthenia gravis known as a congenital myasthenic syndrome.
Across campus, residence hall kitchen and laundry room trash cans are sometimes overfilled to the point that trash meets the floor, and students occasionally lose access to both of those rooms.
Add carrot, celery, and sage; cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Add the pasta and 1 tablespoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until al dente.
Add the spinach and cook until it wilts, stirring occasionally.
After decades of being “hired-out” skilled workers could occasionally “self-purchase” themselves, a spouse, children or relatives.
After that, she occasionally performed.
A.G. There, the kids will learn how to harness their powers, which are frequently troublesome and occasionally uncontrollable.
Allow to sit for 30 minutes, occasionally stirring, until juicy.
Also, they could take a day off occasionally to help fight cramping and exhaustion.
Also, they occasionally catch fire.
Although he explains he isn't to interfere with the tournament, that doesn't stop Raiden from occasionally stepping in and using his mastery over lightning to remind everyone about his power.
Although they did come out with good shows occasionally.
And even during their hiatus, band members remained in contact, occasionally jamming with one another in between Reeves’ film shoots.
And it occasionally did raise or lower them to adjust to current economic and revenue conditions.
Common combinations with occasionally
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and occasionally 33×
- stirring occasionally 12×
- to occasionally 9×
- occasionally until 8×
- occasionally to 6×
- occasionally the 5×
- would occasionally 5×
- are occasionally 4×
- if occasionally 4×
- he occasionally 4×