by turns
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]by turns (not comparable)
- One after the other; successively; alternating.
- 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions[1], Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 185:
- I am by turns angry and amused. I am the butchest of the three roommates; obviously she thought I was the most likely to get over my “bisexual phase.”
- (obsolete) At intervals; from time to time.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- [They] feel by turns the bitter change.
Translations
[edit]One after the other; successively; alternating
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