NOW AND AGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does now and again mean? 

• NOW AND AGAIN (adverb)
  The adverb NOW AND AGAIN has 1 sense:

1. sporadically and infrequently

  Familiarity information: NOW AND AGAIN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOW AND AGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sporadically and infrequently

Synonyms:

at times; from time to time; now and again; now and then; occasionally; on occasion; once in a while

Context example:

as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention

 Context examples 

Now and again the wolves, in packs of two and three, crossed his path.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Now and again a pair of eyes moved, or disappeared to appear again a moment later.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Now and again she had interrupted his reading with exclamations of pleasure, and now, as he laid the last sheet of manuscript with its fellows, he waited her judgment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“That was how it were, now, weren't it, Hawkins?” he would say, now and again, and I could always bear him entirely out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now and again feet stamped overhead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred, the truth was still discovered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly, wheedlingly, and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Now and again a peaty amber colored stream rippled across their way, with ferny over-grown banks, where the blue kingfisher flitted busily from side to side, or the gray and pensive heron, swollen with trout and dignity, stood ankle-deep among the sedges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There I lay on my elbows in the most trying attitude, and every now and again gave a weak stroke or two to turn her head to shore.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)