The phrase "intermittently stops" is correct and usable in written English.
You would typically use it when describing a continuous action that occurs in bouts and is not sustained. For example: "The train intermittently stops at each station."
The two often rode horseback on field expeditions, engaged in intense discussions of evolution, intermittently stopping to collect specimens.
The travel lanes will be temporarily impeded, and east/west traffic will be intermittently stopped as the street is narrowed to one lane.
The Dream did not lose power and its propulsion systems were unaffected, but for several hours Wednesday night the toilets and elevators intermittently stopped working.
Once the routine drills of sprinting, skipping and ball control are over, the 24 youngsters break into two groups for an intense practice match that is intermittently stopped as Ridoin remonstrates with his charges, who are struggling to adapt to a new tactical formation.
The Honolulu and Ocean View crossing was at the center of controversy this year when Glendale installed a diagonal crosswalk that intermittently stopped traffic in all directions.
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is expected to meet with shipping companies and the dockworkers union Wednesday in an attempt to resolve a labor dispute that has intermittently stopped the unloading of ships at 29 West Coast ports.
Transient burning and itching during the first days of treatment were the most common adverse events, leading two patients to intermittently stop tacrolimus application and one patient to withdraw from the study.
Intermittently, she stops her play to clean it off.
The image of a woman lighting a match recurs, along with a woman's loud voice intermittently protesting, "Stop" and "I won't talk".
Hydin-deficient flagella of Chlamydomonas become intermittently paralyzed, stopping for long times at the end of the effective or recovery strokes, where the direction of beat is reversed (Lechtreck and Witman 2007).
