Off-and-on Definition

adverb

(idiomatic) Intermittently.

With so much worry, I only slept off and on last night.
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(nautical) On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land.

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Off-and-on Sentence Examples

  • Nurses came into the room off and on all night to check on Destiny, but she continued to sleep.

  • A'Ran watched her off and on during the several days she spent alone.

  • Sometimes the hardest part of skiing is getting off and on the chair lift.

  • During his school years, he dabbled in music off and on playing for a local band called Soil, but his real focus at this time was making films about surfing.

  • Throughout the 90s, Lloyd Webber toyed off and on with show ideas with the help of novelist Frederick Forsyth.

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