English Phrase of the Day

from time to time

Definitions

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from time to time
1. adv. Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while.
2. adv. (legal) In whatever status exists at various times.
3. adv. (obsolete) Continuously from one time to another; at all times, constantly.
Analysis
from
1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at.
This wine comes from France.
I got a letter from my brother.
2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at.
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
time
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
time
1. n. The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time
2. n. (physics, usually) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
3. n. (physics) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

Example Sentences

I see her from time to time around town.

Should the jury or magistrates be aware that there's been a relationship and the relationship has been attended by violence from time to time?

So if from time to time you see in me, like an abstracted stillness, melancholy still my eyes, it's I'm a woman living lonely and not at all that I'm unhappy.

At a time when the most admired composers seem often to be those with the persistence to make a lot out of a little, there should be space for the profligates who stagger through, scattering original ideas around, and, from time to time, coming up with real pearls.

From time to time I've commented on the absurdities and anomalies of judicial titles and modes of address, incomprehensible to anyone outside the legal world.

Review Previous Phrases

from time to time	next to	bone of contention	hands down
slow down	let down	only if	in addition
in a hurry	go round	anywhere else	grow up
run away	nip in the bud	hold on	believe it or not

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