Sentence examples for was alternate from inspiring English sources
verb
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
Later the White House said that Mr. Lichenstein, who was alternate representative at the United Nations from 1981 to 1984, when Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the ambassador, had sought unsuccessfully to resign from his post two weeks earlier in frustration at the United Nations' bureaucracy.
Still, his parents did not throw him out of the family home in Hartsdale upon learning that the focus of his self-financed project was Alternate Realities and Mr. Oto, a nonconformist who abandoned his career in Manhattan real estate law 19 years ago to open the shop and who has struggled to keep it going since.
He had previously worked with Haviland, when Mougenel was alternate captain on and Haviland was head coach of the ECHL's Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies in 2002 03, the year the team won the Kelly Cup.
It was alternate-side parking day, as became obvious later to some chagrined drivers, including some reporters attending Mr. Haag's news conference.
Seo was alternating between English and Korean.
He soon was alternating between comedies and tearjerkers.
At the time, the Obama team was alternating between two arguments about Romney.
An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: "STALL STALL STALL".
The order of the exercises was alternated.
Rolling was alternated with annealing in the above-mentioned conditions.
Right and left lens was alternated as control.
