Read full poem →avocado pear halves stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise, and
platters of rare roast beef and cold chicken, and every so often a
cut-glass bowl heaped with black caviar. I hadn’t had time to eat
Dictionary Entry
Occasionally; intermittently; irregularly; now and then; once in a while.
In a Sentence
“Check on the houseplants every so often to see if they need watering.”
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Poetry examples for “every so often”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It was pitch dark. After a while I deciphered the faint outlines of
an unfamiliar window. Every so often a beam of light appeared out
of thin air, traversed the wall like a ghostly, exploratory finger, and