Fitfully [adverb]

It had been drizzling fitfully all day, but as we started on the trip, it began to rain in earnest.

High above sounded the musicians, fitfully trying some strain of which they were not certain.

Tessa had slept fitfully; Sue had lain perfectly quiet, not speaking again or moving.

The moon cast the shadows of branches on the canvas, and the noise of the stream, far below, came fitfully to Helen's ears.

It was a weird night outside; a white gray night, shone upon fitfully by a sullen moon and a few lonely stars.

Lightning flashed fitfully from the darkening west; but as yet no thunder broke the heavy silence.

For hours she had lain wide-eyed, tossing fitfully, seeking the rest that would not come.

At last the seemingly endless night began to wane, and near daybreak the girl dozed fitfully.

The rising moon shone fitfully upon the white signs of sorrow in the little churchyard far to the left.

The obscurity in which the rest of her long life was spent has only been fitfully illuminated.