once in a while

Adverb

Meaning

sporadically and infrequently

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

occasionally from time to time at times on occasion now and then sometimes rarely occasional seldom periodically irregularly infrequently sporadically now and again every so often
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Antonyms

often always regularly constantly continuously permanently
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Examples

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. Richard Bach

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. George Horace Lorimer

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. Edward R. Murrow

To truly love your wife, leave her alone every once in a while. Malay Proverb

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. English Proverb

Even after healing, a man once mad would still shout "HOI” once in a while. Yoruba Proverb

Close letter words and terms

once in a great while once in a purple moon once in a way once in awhile once in blue moon once in five years