How to Use periodic in a Sentence

periodic

adjective
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  • He takes the car in for periodic oil changes.
  • At least here, there's periodic breaks in the hurry-up-and-wait.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This week, the clubs of the Premier League met in London for one of their periodic conferences.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That’s the theme of Children Now’s latest version of its periodic scorecard on the state’s youth.
    — Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • El Niño is the periodic warming of ocean waters in the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The idea is to keep a closer watch on patients than is possible with periodic visits to the bedside.
    — Casey Ross, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Human bird flu outbreaks are periodic and, so far, small in scale.
    — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Case counts fluctuate, due in part to periodic epidemics, the CDC said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There's also the vague threat of war on the outer edges of the kingdom, and the periodic use of dragons as the ultimate weapon in Middle Ages-style aerial warfare.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The prison must also give periodic reports to the Justice Department on its progress.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
  • At the same time, towns have struggled with wildfires, smoke and periodic pandemic lockdowns that drove tourists away at key times.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2022
  • But the periodic court hearings at least give Gershkovich's family and friends and U.S. officials a glimpse of him.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Mar. 2024
  • With just periodic cleaning, artificial turf can give you the look of a lush green lawn without any of the toil of regular grass.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2022
  • It is known as a periodic comet with an orbital period of roughly 71 years.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • There have periodic attempts to restart the team, including a three-game revival in 2019, but the time of the Flying Fathers has seemingly passed.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Even the periodic flare-ups of violence do little to raise any sense of urgency.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The effects of the videos eventually wear off, requiring the use of periodic video reminders.
    — David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
  • With a little periodic mineral oil, these stunners will last for years to come.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
  • On top of the periodic rattle of the transit trains and roar of sports fans, there’s the intrusion of illicit activities that keep him awake.
    — Jovi Dai, The Mercury News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This periodic change in rotation might be due to a tug-of-war effect between the Earth’s liquid outer core and solid mantle, writes the Times.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
  • On the face of it, this is nothing new: Foreign companies in China have faced periodic boycotts for years.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The inventor of the lightbulb (insert asterisk) had the bright idea that sleep was counter-productive, and so preferred to take periodic naps throughout the day and night.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • It's also reportedly planned for the dining room to open for periodic pop-ups.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Over the past 11 months, a group of women in Gillette have led periodic search parties for the drum or any potential clues to Gakwa’s disappearance.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Just before the decision was made to close the road, dump trucks were delivering dozens of loads of gravel to the site each week, with periodic breaks to allow buses through.
    — Nat Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Few have the financial resources to brave the periodic downdrafts in the stock market without quailing.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • More than 2 million migrant entries were recorded in each of the last two years, creating periodic scenes of chaos in border towns.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • La Niña refers to the periodic cooling of surface waters in the tropical Pacific caused by chilly waters welling up from the depths off the coast of South America.
    — Bymaya Wei-Haas, science.org, 10 May 2023
  • In this way, the clock-and-wavefront mechanism controls the periodic organization of the spine.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Most scientists believe that ice ages—there have been at least ten of them over the past two and half million years—are initiated and terminated by periodic shifts in the Earth’s orbit, caused by, among other factors, the tug of Jupiter and Saturn.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024

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