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Definition of the day : « desultory »

  • adj random
Example sentences :
  • After some desultory conversation I told him who I was and how I came to be there.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • The best as a novel it cannot be called, because the action is desultory in the extreme.
  • Extract from : « Sir Walter Scott » by George Saintsbury
  • They did not even answer the desultory fire directed at the loopholes.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
  • Troops may be exposed to desultory shelling during the day or night.
  • Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
  • The interchange of musketry, eastward there, had a desultory, waiting sound.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • Hitherto, however, it was evident that the firing was but masked and desultory.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter » by John Hill Burton
  • I mustn't have any desultory conversation, but proceed at once to business.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • As for my education it was limited, and I may say desultory.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of Methuselah » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • I found them sitting on the deck, engaged in a desultory, low-voiced conversation.
  • Extract from : « Shock Absorber » by E.G. von Wald
  • Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
  • Extract from : « A Study In Scarlet » by Arthur Conan Doyle