Sentence examples for intervals by from inspiring English sources

As pictures change hands, he is sometimes sent the same picture – at about five-year intervals – by each new owner.

The tunnel is 9,117 ft. and is really two separate tubes, connected at intervals by cross passages.

From nose to tail, the side wall was a long, smooth curve broken at precise intervals by round portholes.

In longitudinal sections, the pith appears partitioned horizontally at intervals by vascular tissue.

These smaller climaxes are interrupted at approximately nine-minute intervals by larger climaxes, called commercials.

Such a line was marked off at intervals by knots tied in the rope.

There is little to distract the reader from the sense of information being parcelled out at careful intervals by an unseen but all-controlling hand.

Death at Intervals by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 196pp, Harvill, £12.99 In the craft of the sentence, José Saramago is one of the great originals.

Their sides are sloped, about four stories high, and mostly covered with heavy vinyl tarps held down at regular intervals by sandbags filled with salt.

Instead, I was lulled, at intervals, by the lonesome whistles and clickety clack of the train that ran along tracks just beyond the highway.

That was the informal name for a performance review process in which employees were evaluated at regular intervals by management groups and the lowest-ranked were purged.