from time to time

Speech parts

1. from time to time - Adverb

2. from time to time - Phrase

Meaning

sporadically and infrequently

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

occasionally at times on occasion now and then once in a while now and again time to time sometimes once rarely occasional periodic seldom periodically sometime
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Antonyms

often ever always frequently regularly annually
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Examples

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? Jeanette Winterson

Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. Charles Baudelaire

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis

Words in the phrase

from time to

Close letter words and terms

from this time forth from this time on from time immemorial from tip to toe from top to bottom from top to down