Cheered, as I have said, he was: and yet but by fits.

However you take it, her play proceeds by fits and starts.

Even his friends did not know him but by fits.

But there is one among them who joins in their amusement only by fits and starts.

He continued moving by fits and starts away from the heart of the contamination.

The waiting line of eight similar vehicles jerked forward by fits and starts.

By fits and starts, he spoke of his several ladies.

A moment later they began to rise, by fits and starts at first, then more smoothly.

Federal policy on women's health research has evolved by fits and starts.

I've known him, by fits and starts, since I was twelve years old.