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Definition of alternately in English: alternatelyadverb ɔːlˈtəːnətliˈɔltərnətli 1With two things continually following and succeeded by each other; one after the other. she sounds alternately confused and confident Example sentencesExamples - I like comedy and I like bleak, but the mixture is like someone alternately shoveling ice cream and steak into my mouth.
- Having chosen to ride on his considerable reputation, the curator has assembled a show that feels alternately meandering and hasty.
- They are glazed in greenish-black and pale brown, the colors laid alternately to form a simple checkerboard.
- The gruff and blustery painter was alternately rejected and embraced by critics and the art public over his subject matter and style.
- Their roles gradually reverse, and the family members alternately turn to and on each other.
- The external treatment of the house reveals a layering with metal and concrete panels alternately veiling and revealing inner glass boxes.
- Death conceals and reveals himself alternately and to different degrees.
- Gone are the days of planting just wheat every other year, alternately leaving soil fallow to perhaps store precious water.
- I begin with the assumption that art and politics never fit together neatly—they alternately diverge and intersect.
- The scenes are played alternately as comedy and tragedy.
2North American sentence adverb As another option or possibility; alternatively. alternately, slice the cake in two when completely cooled and spread raspberry jam between the two halves Example sentencesExamples - Alternately, it doesn't hurt to find someone smoking tea-leaves and trail along behind them.
- Alternately, you might just want to dance.
- It raises the question of whether they will avoid resorting to a new round of military dictatorships, or, alternately, be swept away by social revolution.
- Alternately, imagine what it would be like to be confronted by a set of concepts whose application was internally inconsistent.
- Got some old electronics kicking around the house—or alternately, do you wish you had some?
- Alternately, length and initiation of therapy could be based on severity of symptoms experienced by the patient.
- Alternately, these findings may be reassuring for other centers where ischemic time is usually below five hours.
- Alternately, if you happen to run into them while they're out carousing, have them fill you in.
- Alternately, it is possible that there is a defect in macrophage production in these animals.
- Alternately, forest activists may come under scrutiny by some for provoking anger and hostility amongst loggers.
Definition of alternately in US English: alternatelyadverbˈôltərnətlēˈɔltərnətli 1With two things continually following and succeeded by each other; one after the other. she sounds alternately confused and confident Example sentencesExamples - I like comedy and I like bleak, but the mixture is like someone alternately shoveling ice cream and steak into my mouth.
- The scenes are played alternately as comedy and tragedy.
- The gruff and blustery painter was alternately rejected and embraced by critics and the art public over his subject matter and style.
- Gone are the days of planting just wheat every other year, alternately leaving soil fallow to perhaps store precious water.
- They are glazed in greenish-black and pale brown, the colors laid alternately to form a simple checkerboard.
- Death conceals and reveals himself alternately and to different degrees.
- Their roles gradually reverse, and the family members alternately turn to and on each other.
- Having chosen to ride on his considerable reputation, the curator has assembled a show that feels alternately meandering and hasty.
- The external treatment of the house reveals a layering with metal and concrete panels alternately veiling and revealing inner glass boxes.
- I begin with the assumption that art and politics never fit together neatly—they alternately diverge and intersect.
2North American sentence adverb As another option or possibility; alternatively. alternately, slice the cake in two when completely cooled and spread raspberry jam between the two halves Example sentencesExamples - Got some old electronics kicking around the house—or alternately, do you wish you had some?
- Alternately, forest activists may come under scrutiny by some for provoking anger and hostility amongst loggers.
- Alternately, it doesn't hurt to find someone smoking tea-leaves and trail along behind them.
- It raises the question of whether they will avoid resorting to a new round of military dictatorships, or, alternately, be swept away by social revolution.
- Alternately, imagine what it would be like to be confronted by a set of concepts whose application was internally inconsistent.
- Alternately, you might just want to dance.
- Alternately, if you happen to run into them while they're out carousing, have them fill you in.
- Alternately, it is possible that there is a defect in macrophage production in these animals.
- Alternately, these findings may be reassuring for other centers where ischemic time is usually below five hours.
- Alternately, length and initiation of therapy could be based on severity of symptoms experienced by the patient.
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