“There had already been a few sporadic skirmishes along their heavily fortified border.”

“Old, his face was weathered and wrinkled, but he always had a smile for the strange woman and her sporadic emotional outbursts.”

“There is also sporadic news of high ranking al-Qaeda officials travelling in Iran, seeming to be causally connected to terror attacks in Iraq.”

“Despite their best efforts, the team's progress remained sporadical, with periods of rapid advancement intermixed with prolonged periods of little to no results.”

“It is, he says, both a sporadical and an epidemical disease, and when epidemical it is also contagious.”

“The inconsistency of manifestations of the first three parameters usually means that the style is not sustained and higher parameter values are sporadical.”