fitfully's Usage Examples:

They have no drainage to the sea, save fitfully for slight areas through the Colorado river.

He now became specially interested in the establishment of an Irish literary theatre; and he founded and conducted an occasional periodical (appearing fitfully at irregular intervals), called first Beltain and later Samhain, to expound its aims and preach his own views, the first number appearing in May 1899.

Every since he came home from the hospital he slept fitfully and was hard to wake.

For the remainder of the reign the Persian War was continued fitfully, a treaty of peace, signed in 1611, not being observed.

Yet, in spite of all corruption, ideas of the intelligent development of the subject lands, visions of the Hellenic king, as the Greek thinkers had come to picture him, haunted the Macedonian rulers, and perhaps fitfully, in the intervals of war or carousal, prompted some degree of action.

He slept, fitfully, though this time he remembered no dreams.

We slept fitfully, spooned together on the thin mattress.

Yully slept fitfully and awoke before dawn, unable to rest with her troubled thoughts.

Cassie slept fitfully that night and woke in the morning with a start.

Carmen slept fitfully in a chair in the waiting room all night.