How to Use not infrequently in a Sentence

not infrequently

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  • His mother worried about us, too, and asked Matt, not infrequently, What if the green card doesn’t go through, what if the green card doesn’t go through, what if the green card doesn’t go through?
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • The jokes not infrequently centered on the consequences of drinking.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The jokes not infrequently centered on the consequences of drinking.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But the players not infrequently fill out programs with their own arrangements of folk tunes from their native Scandinavia, as well as, more recently, from the British Isles.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The letter and France's response were the latest crossing of swords between two nations with a storied history of break-ups, make-ups and, not infrequently, of revelling in rubbing each up in the wrong way.
    — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • But at the height of the Gold Rush, traveling those 60 miles was an uncomfortable, dangerous and not infrequently fatal ordeal.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Sometimes for better but not infrequently for worse, confidence has never been an issue for Rattler.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
  • For more than 20 years, an online chat board called the Rant has been the place where New York City police officers have gone in secret to complain about their jobs — not infrequently using blatantly racist and misogynistic language.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Bad things follow, because artists are also, not infrequently, smug pigs or insecure creeps who suck up all the adulation on offer in a futile attempt to repair the cavernous emotional wounds that made them into artists in the first place.
    — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • The threat these often militant activists posed was not infrequently leveraged by mainstream activists to make their own demands for racial and economic justice appear more palatable.
    — Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Lamont is a singer, songwriter and producer not infrequently referred to as a Motown legend.
    — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Other tickets come out of allotments given to each studio, although the Academy not infrequently finds additional tickets for VIPs who wish to attend.
    — Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The press, particularly at the Grand Slams, can include people who are not well versed in tennis; tabloid reporters; and, not infrequently, people who ask ham-handed and offensive questions, particularly of Black women.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 1 June 2021
  • Now imagine that transactional logic applied to any situation in which Musk's interests collide with others, which tends to happen not infrequently.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But because Barron has been not infrequently photographed during the precise years when most people experience significant growth spurts, his suddenly looming stature has become a point of interest.
    — Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 17 June 2020
  • Then, beginning about half a million years ago, scientists start to see cannibalism happening not infrequently in the fossil record among our relative species, particularly Neanderthals and H. sapiens.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • Walker’s particular mode of engaging with our attention spans—her visual and conceptual provocations—have often caused furor, first from the generation above her, now not infrequently from the generation below.
    — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • In this confidently ambitious, taut and not infrequently exhausting tale of abduction, family lives are upended.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • By Birdsall’s not particularly unkind record, Beard often borrowed other people’s recipes, frequently recycled his own, and generally relied on other cooks for his innovations and, not infrequently, on editors and assistants for his prose.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Smaller cases involving similar practices pop up not infrequently.
    — chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021

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