intervals

Synonyms

times interim periodicity half-hourly time interval musical interval

Phrases with the word

at intervals at regular time intervals consecutive intervals regular intervals hand intervals intervals of time

Examples

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. Woodrow Wilson

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. Franz Schubert

The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. Samuel Johnson

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. François Arago

Lucid intervals and happy pauses. Francis Bacon