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OCCASIONAL

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occasional adjectiv

1. care are loc din când în când; rar, neregulat.

2. eventual, întâmplător, neprevăzut.

3. de circumstanţă, compus etc. cu prilejul unui anumit eveniment; pentru un scop anumit.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth preserved as steady a silence as either Mrs. Hurst or Miss Bingley; and even Lydia was too much fatigued to utter more than the occasional exclamation of Lord, how tired I am! accompanied by a violent yawn.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Describe the occasional pain.

(NPS - Describe the Occasional Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

The level of the plateau, when I turned, was exactly that on which we stood, and the green bank of bushes, with occasional trees, was so near that it was difficult to realize how inaccessible it remained.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to set any tax upon his legs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What his mother really is we cannot know; but, from Fanny's occasional mention of her conduct and opinions, we have never been disposed to think her amiable; and I am very much mistaken if Edward is not himself aware that there would be many difficulties in his way, if he were to wish to marry a woman who had not either a great fortune or high rank.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But above, perched each upon its own stone, tall, gray, and withered, more like dead and dried specimens than actual living creatures, sat the horrible males, absolutely motionless save for the rolling of their red eyes or an occasional snap of their rat-trap beaks as a dragon-fly went past them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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