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Six example sentences with sporadic, each labelled with its topic.
Server outages were sporadic, striking twice one week and not again for a month, so nobody could reproduce them.
Gaming
Rainfall on the plateau is sporadic: three storms in April, then nothing until a downpour in late September.
Environment
His scoring stayed sporadic all season, thirty points one night and then four quiet games before the next outburst.
Basketball
Cases of the illness remained sporadic, one in spring and two in autumn, never enough to call an outbreak.
Medicine
Orders from the overseas client were sporadic, arriving in a rush before holidays and then vanishing for months.
Business
Sporadic letters between the two courts survive, a burst in 1520 and then nothing for a decade.
History
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