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How to use off and on in a sentence

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I've been a fan of hip hop off and on since the 80s and the genre seems to work in fits and spurts.
He railed against being called a racist, a charge leveled at him off and on throughout his career.
It rained off and on all day, and we were quite content to yarn with Jean Craigie, Ernie Smith, Stan Ombler and the rest of the hut occupants.
As soon as the natives retired ashore, we made sail and spent our time standing off and on.
Its neatest feature is a little button that turns the wireless card off and on, so that it doesn't suck power when you're not using it.
And, well, we've also been sleeping together off and on, when neither of us are dating anyone else, for the past five years.
It's a little swollen now, but I can still get the ring off and on without any problem.
I've heard that leaving a light on for a given length of time may use less energy than turning it off and on again.
Speakers would cut out at random, and would only come back on when I turned the amp off and on again, or turned it up to full volume.
The lights flash off and on, and the phones are cut as guards try to get people moving out of the room for the next set of visitors.
The light technician turns the lights off and on to the rhythm of the music.
Several weeks after the completion of his work the office lights would go off and on intermittently.
She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on.
About ten minutes after I hung up the phone, it started raining hard, and did so off and on for most of the day.
Giffen was an attacking batsman and had a variety of strokes including powerful off and on drives.
For fourteen years, off and on, I have spent the spring on the south coast of Cornwall, in the heliotropic village of St Mawes.
I've played off and on since my 3 and a half years in Canada, but haven't swung a club for probably 5 years now.
I'll leave it there for now, because I'm in bits tonight, on and off, off and on.
How long can you stand to hold your child while he turns the light switch off and on?
The train stayed full with people getting off and on all the way although I didn't see standees.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Matron Kowalski on night duty had a habit of turning that light off and on at chancy intervals after midnight.
The other vessels followed her soon after, the principal intending to lay off and on till the tritonia reported.
He watched them load and unload their cargoes and hundreds of people get off and on.
Percy was plainly called a donkey, for hanging off and on with a handsome girl of such expectations as Miss asper.
The control of matter in putting it off and on at will, as He in His death and resurrection.
They was ashore nigh on a week, and us standing off and on in the old walrus.
With a favoring breeze cutters could win in through the tortuous and shallow channel, but the schooners lay off and on outside and sent in their small boats.
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