It is not the same as an occasional argument.

We had the occasional argument, as one would expect.

And there's the occasional argument to keep the relationship lively.

Through the hole he could smell the odor of the sewers and hear occasional arguments among rats.

With only occasional arguments, they played for mythical stakes until Cindy was in debt several million bananas.

The occasional argument that athletes should be grateful for a free education just doesn't work.

As I called upon him to understand that the bond we shared was not a casual thing for me, we had occasional arguments.

We can all, at times, excuse an occasional argument or even an accidental slap that might be given.

There was room only for cold nods of the head in passing, and the occasional argument when a party or a television was too noisy.

Within the Administration, there were occasional arguments about the virtues of free capital flows.