Sentence examples for which are alternately from inspiring English sources

For most intertidal bivalves (which are alternately exposed to wetting and drying), respiration all but ceases during the drying phase.

It gives you less transcendence than you need after the two previous acts, which are alternately entertaining and pompous, invariably spectacular, generally formulaic, musically trite and (the setting is India) an anthropologist's nightmare.

Gorman is a steadfast admirer, and much of the text is given over to meticulous, moment-by-moment accounts of the magazine's inner workings, which are alternately tedious and illuminating.

Gavin is particularly eloquent about the freeways on which his characters spend so much time, which are alternately "blind and savage" corridors of competition or roiling seas upon which valiant salesmen traverse the earth like traders of yore.

The Opera House tiles would need to stand up to extreme conditions, and, to develop them, Utzon chose a Swedish ceramic factory, Höganäs, which normally produced a far less glamorous product: stoneware tiles to line the sluices in paper mills, which are alternately exposed to boiling water and ice-cold river water.

Figure 5 1D chain containing six-membered O6 rings, which are alternately made from (H 2 O) 6 and [(H 2 O) 4 O 2 ] rings.

These effects seem intended to register Frannie's inner state, which is alternately morose and panicky.

Critics have disagreed on how to classify her work, which is alternately bleak and side-splitting.

Death shadows the novel, which is alternately funny, outrageous and sad.

It is like many canonical English novels in its attitude to history, which is alternately earnest and mocking.

At last count, 116 died in the crash, which was alternately blamed on a rebel rocket and military incompetence.