fitful

For the rest of the night, their sleep was fitful.

The wind was from the north now, strong but fitful.

Then a few hours of fitful sleep, and back on the road again.

My health began to break last winter, and has given me but fitful times since then.

All last winter he had been dark and fitful in his mind.

A long time later, he fell into a fitful sleep.

It has been a fitful night; only four hours of sleep.

For two years, the fitful economic recovery has been a fact in only half the country.

At its fitful best, the program does justice to the power of the material.

Sure enough, the music soon breaks into a fitful middle section.

Progress was slow and fitful during the first 25 years.

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time?

David was alone once again in the cold, fitful light of the phone booth.

Before a fitful night's sleep I made a mental check.

The result was a more fitful performance than this work usually receives.

My night had been fitful, sleep coming only toward dawn.

His interest in the tasks of government, however, proved fitful.

Finally we said good night to each other and slipped off into a fitful sleep.

Impossible to tell here with the light coming and going like fitful weather.

Fitful dialogue over the past three years has made no real progress on any front.

Much less time went by than it felt like, and I drifted into a fitful sleep.

On this side of the Atlantic, its advance has been fitful.

It was not too painful, but then he began a fitful struggle.

A reddish, fitful light was coming from a window above.

After a minute, he closed his eyes and returned to a fitful sleep.