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    irregular


    1. In his irregular visits to my cell during the day we discussed many things, although mostly we ended up bantering about my escape


    2. Closer to the cities or towns they had less than an acre and grew only perishables and worked urban jobs at irregular intervals


    3. She nested with both of them and had sleeping hours that were irregular enough that she spent time with both of them


    4. An irregular mass elongated and stretched itself, revealing the rough shape of torso, limbs and head, all of them covered in what seemed to be a coating of thick, black, flowing cloth


    5. The three of men, Danton, the gaoler and the guard, swept down the landing towards the far door, their mistimed triumvirate steps clattering out a chaos of irregular rhythms


    6. A pile of leshin bales was irregular, there was a short one they could climb on out of the aisle so anybody would have to come down this aisle or climb up to their nest to see them


    7. stand in irregular lines around the edge of a table,


    8. The villa had seen better days, having matured over more than a century of irregular neglect into its current state of generally poor repair


    9. My heart beat in the same irregular way as it did on the


    10. The load, whatever it was, was lumpy and irregular, and seemed to

    11. It is very irregular,” Roman said


    12. “No, the encoded statement was irregular


    13. At the top of the stairs was a table which was cluttered with paper printed with intricate patterns that looked something like irregular 19th century lace doilies with tassels


    14. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by many odd and undesirable characters but also Holmes was weird and irregular in his life


    15. "However, as you know, my habits are irregular, and going without food means less to me than to most men


    16. Fill in the blanks below with one of the 15 irregular past tense verbs in the box


    17. ‘Although it’s highly irregular for someone of the Church


    18. They followed the track down to the canyon and carefully skirted the fallen rocks and irregular path until by midday they met a waterfall and grassy area


    19. First, by this attention they were enabled to make some tolerable judgment concerning the thriving or declining circumstances of their debtors, without being obliged to look out for any other evidence besides what their own books afforded them ; men being, for the most part, either regular or irregular in their repayments, according as their circumstances are either thriving or declining


    20. irregular, while the most others shall be subject

    21. The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services The ancient lords, though extremely unwilling to grant, themselves, any pecuniary aid to their sovereign, easily allowed him to tallage, as they called it, their tenants, and had not knowledge enough to foresee how much this must, in the end, affect their own revenue


    22. Irregular circumstances call for irregular measures


    23. Where the tunnel entrances converged on the great cavern there was a glassy, black smoothness which broke up the irregular, organic look of the cavern walls


    24. Seismic reverberations shook the ground at irregular intervals


    25. That the returns of the trade to America, and still more those of that to the West Indies, are, in general, not only more distant, but more irregular and more uncertain, too, than those of the trade to any part of Europe, or even of the countries which lie round the Mediterranean sea, will readily he allowed, I imagine, by everybody who has any experience of those different branches of trade


    26. These causes seem to be other monopolies of different kinds: the degradation of the value of gold and silver below what it is in most other countries ; the exclusion from foreign markets by improper taxes upon exportation, and the narrowing of the home market, by still more improper taxes upon the transportation of goods from one part of the country to another ; but above all, that irregular and partial administration of justice which often protects the rich and powerful debtor from the pursuit of his injured creditor, and which makes the industrious part of the nation afraid to prepare goods for the consumption of those haughty and great men, to whom they dare not refuse to sell upon credit, and from whom they are altogether uncertain of repayment


    27. When the art of war, too, has gradually grown up to be a very intricate and complicated science; when the event of war ceases to be determined, as in the first ages of society, by a single irregular skirmish or battle ; but when the contest is generally spun out through several different campaigns, each of which lasts during the greater part of the year; it becomes universally necessary that the public should maintain those who serve the public in war, at least while they are employed in that service


    28. Every time they changed over, Kate tried to check her pulse, and, as she feared, it was becoming irregular and slow


    29. It has to be shipped in, and it would be highly irregular if the mistake happened during the collection of blood


    30. They saw Jeremiah on an irregular basis

    31. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard, with abhorrence, the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier


    32. possibly a Rolex, though in the irregular light it was difficult to tell


    33. had irregular shreds of masking tape and address labels stuck to their fascias, showing the name of the company and the name of the server; names


    34. It was hard moving along some of them as they were little more than wet ditches that you stumbled along with irregular floors and right angle turns every so far


    35. Most of the others are irregular in their revolutions


    36. The returns from the great island of Jamaica, where there is still much uncultivated land, have, upon this account, been, in general, more irregular and uncertain than those from the smaller islands of Barbadoes, Antigua, and St


    37. Vincent's, and Dominica, have opened a new field for speculations of this kind ; and the returns front those islands have of late been as irregular and uncertain as those from the great island of Jamaica


    38. It is not because they are poor that their payments are irregular and uncertain, but because they are too eager to become excessively rich


    39. Why do humans have certain areas of the body covered with hair? I do not refer to the small and irregular hairs of the arms and legs here, but rather to the dense patches of hair on the head, in the armpits, and surrounding the genitalia


    40. Merely that Jimmy’s brain-function readings were now becoming more rapid and irregular

    41. His pulse began a rapid, irregular pounding


    42. He wasn’t sure, but so far his meal times seemed irregular, with the guards seeming to bring him food when they remembered


    43. The men had long scrambled through torrent and thicket under a galling fire; the sight of comrades falling acted as an incentive, and, like a series of waves, the companies surged forward, the platoons irregular, commands mixed


    44. You will receive food and water at irregular times


    45. the exception that at times I was having an irregular heart rhythm


    46. The irregular surface of the trail and the poor light meant it was difficult to walk with confidence


    47. As in English, some verbs are irregular, which means that their stems will change in conjugation


    48. “I know this is highly irregular, and trust me, if there was a priest around, I would never ask,” he started


    49. A thing that was most irregular, and it was also like


    50. In his book Human Accomplishment Charles Murray recognizes both the limitation and the potential of humankind in the opening statement of his Introduction: “At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things










































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    Synonyms for "irregular"

    irregular second guerilla guerrilla insurgent unpredictable maverick unorthodox temporary atypical erratic divergent disorderly aimless random anomalous disproportionate jagged rough unequal unsymmetrical asymmetric unusual unofficial unaccepted unceremonious

    "irregular" definitions

    a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment


    merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name


    contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice


    not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals


    (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces


    (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement


    failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection


    deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal


    lacking continuity or regularity


    (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical


    independent in behavior or thought