Sentence examples for Occasionally acceptable from inspiring English sources

(NB. Reply-alls are occasionally acceptable when a chain of hilarity ensues. For instance, the time an email went around the Guardian about a bowl of stolen fruit).

After generously allowing that laziness is occasionally acceptable, Simon and Lindsay go on to give a fearsomely time-consuming recipe for puff pastry, which requires seemingly endless rolling, folding and chilling, culminating with the deadly final instruction, "put the pastry in a polythene bag and leave it in the fridge for several hours or overnight".

Plaid is occasionally acceptable, but be aware that it isn't very formal.

Email set-up using POP3 was easy with Verizon's wizards and the browser, while the network did cut out occasionally, was acceptable.

Although I now know what's accepted and acceptable, I occasionally veer off course and always stray at the beginning of the evening.

Elsewhere on piano, listeners on a tight budget might well, as so often, turn to Naxos, for performances of both sets by Wolfgang Rubsam that occasionally transcend the acceptable (English Suites, 8.553012/3; French Suites, 8.550709/10; two CD's each).

"Tweet" may be acceptable occasionally for special effect.

If pain exceeded this level, exercise intensity was reduced occasionally, until the "acceptable" level was found.

This was accomplished by the Rana family regime after 1860 on terms that were mutually acceptable, if occasionally irritating, to both.

Help your children to see that it's both acceptable and occasionally desirable to sometimes be alone, to peacefully disagree with another's opinion, or to want personal time.

And finally, if lying is occasionally warranted, is it ever acceptable from a candidate?