Examples of 'fits and starts' in a sentence

Meaning of "fits and starts"

fits and starts - Describes progress or activity that occurs irregularly or intermittently, with periods of advancement followed by delays or setbacks. It suggests a lack of consistent or steady development
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  • Activity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions.

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fits and starts
Advancing in fits and starts is still advancing.
City growth occurred in fits and starts.
The fits and starts are harmful.
He will drive home in fits and starts.
Not by fits and starts but gradually and steadily.
The freeing came in fits and starts.
Fits and starts.
Progress in science proceeds in fits and starts.
Not by fits and starts.
He says the work comes in fits and starts.
It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own.
I can work only in fits and starts.
The fits and starts of the following twenty-five years hardly improved the situation.
And it happens in fits and starts.
Owing to lack of funds, Worcester 's eighteenth-century building programme proceeded by fits and starts.

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The time of changes in fits and starts is over.
That evolution occurs not along a straight graphable line but in huge fits and starts.
Instead of me stammering in fits and starts a letter is more concise.
French settlement efforts continued in fits and starts.
Work continued in fits and starts over the next year.
His military career continued in fits and starts.
Sorry for the fits and starts with the updating.
Instead of stopping by in fits and starts.
Fits and starts, doctor . Fits and starts.
Fundraising continued in fits and starts.
It came in fits and starts.
The system has expanded since then in a series of fits and starts.
A life spent amid the fits and starts of history.
Satellite and cable TV companies are making improvements in fits and starts.
His education took place in fits and starts and was rudimentary at best.
El Pasoans have watched its growth in fits and starts.
The process has gone in fits and starts but continues, sometimes slowly.
Mining lithium in Bolivia has its own history of fits and starts.
It proceeds in fits and starts of ignorance . ”.
The new strategy in Honduras has had its own fits and starts.
We have been doing this in fits and starts over the past 35 years.
The move from Italy to Turkey happens in fits and starts.
And even that is in fits and starts ( until lately lol ).
Besides, you know science advances in fits and starts.
And Martin in fits and starts.
It is most often an irregular, discontinuous process, proceeding in fits and starts.
Economic policies change radically and - in fits and starts - they are curing the disease.
Throughout the following decades, films were produced only in fits and starts.
Talks progressed in fits and starts.
As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts.
Progress happens in fits and starts.
So the material magnetizes neither gradually nor all at once, but in fits and starts.
The Internet has gone through fits and starts - in particular.
In California, the world 's largest cannabis industry has developed in fits and starts.
Our breaths came out in fits and starts.

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Examples of using Starts
My heart starts to beat to beat the band
A few instructions just before rehearsal starts
The compressor starts after a period of time
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Examples of using Fits
It fits the parameters of the secret cliff
I have only one fits that profile
Fits well in a mix with other instruments
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