Adjective
Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe development of the human mind has practically extinguished all feelings, except a few sporadic kinds, [like] sound, colors, smells, warmth, etc., which now appear to be disconnected and separate. Charles Sanders Peirce
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. M. John Harrison
Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour. Eminem
We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. Chris Hemsworth
I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries. Alice Englert