Sentence examples for periodic things from inspiring English sources

As for the power consumption issues: thanks to some super smart circuitry and a system that constantly retunes itself for minimal power consumption, Electric Imp says their card can power periodic things like the Lockitron for years on end off of just a couple of AA batteries.

It's not the once-a-month book club or the periodic concert series, things when you know you have to be approximately on time or miss out.

So these things are periodic.

Philolaus' great year may be connected to the doctrine of the periodic return of all things, which Dicaearchus assigns to the Pythagoreans (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 19), which may be in turn a generalization of reincarnation (Riedweg 2005, 63).

Brostrom says Schwartz's analysis is wrong, but it raised enough questions that in 2013 the Legislature enacted AB 94 requiring the university to, among other things, generate periodic reports and more precise accounting on how it actually spends its money.

You can set up alerts to contact you at periodic times or when things happen to you financially.

The comedian Dave Chappelle offered periodic interjections ("The only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America is being a black man being honest in America").

"If Tyco is purchasing it for other executives to use on a periodic basis, that's one thing," the investigator said.

But the truly weird thing about these periodic bouts of excitement about the G-spot is that we already know that women have an organ of sexual pleasure.

Their life throws up a periodic loss and even the little things hurt: the absence of party invitations, the impossibility of holidays, the fear of grandchildren.

"I didn't disagree with the reductions because we've always had periodic reviews of this kind of thing," said Jeffrey Ward, Bowdoin's athletic director.