"occasional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From the dining room where he worked on cabinets, Declan could hear the lazy rise and fall of their voices, the occasional thump and tumble.
- No bird sang, and there was only the occasional padded thump of snow sliding from overloaded branches to the earth beneath.
- There was a flat, steady drone from the twin inboard engines, and an occasional smacking thump as they crossed another boat's wake.
- Women gather by a small stream, washing clothes with an occasional thump of a wooden stick.
- It was surprisingly quiet, just the sounds of birds and wind, and the occasional low thump and murmur, like someone moving something somewhere else.
- Behind him he beard an occasional faint thump or clatter as the rowers took their places, but there was little noise.
- Every now and then, we hear staccato bursts of gunfire, with the occasional thump of artillery.
- Up here, with the door closed, she could hear an occasional thump from downstairs, but no merry voices.
- She smiled and leaned back languorously, her little shoes making occasional thumps against the side of the desk.
- Below me I could hear the occasional slow rnuffled thump, the clatter of shutters thrust open nearby, a cry of "Gardyloo!"
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