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parfois in English:

1. sometimes


Sometimes the first symptom of cardiovascular disease is death.
He's strange sometimes.
Native speakers sometimes make mistakes, but not usually the same kind of mistakes that non-native speakers make.
I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.
Your English is grammatically correct, but sometimes what you say just doesn't sound like what a native speaker would say.
I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.
Furthermore, even after the company information session, we sometimes hold company tours.
Cesar Chavez asked that strikers remain non-violent even though farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.
Sometimes, if I look at a forest of trees, I get in a trance and don't even realize until minutes later.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
In order to gain media recognition, sometimes AIDS patients have to push themselves into the public eye.
When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.
She is at her wit's end with her son. He sometimes does not come home until 3 or 4 a.m.
My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

English word "parfois"(sometimes) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Mixed Faces" (Roy Norton)
Fiches du livre - "Mothers to Men" (Zona Gale)
Fiches du livre - "Pan" (Knut Hamsun)
Fiches du livre - "Wanda, Vol. 1 (of 3)" (Ouida)
Fiches du livre - "Th' Barrel Organ" (Edwin Waugh)

2. occasionally


They visited me occasionally.
Teachers should occasionally let their students blow off some steam.
He occasionally visited me.
Tom doesn't mind helping Mary occasionally.
The speaker occasionally referred to his notes.
Let's occasionally change where we go to eat out.
Her husband occasionally pauses mid-sentence, and then simply leaves.
There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.
The sun is currently in a period of low activity but even so large sunspots occasionally appear.
I go to London occasionally
I'm not addicted, I smoke only occasionally.
Some of these sights might be occasionally closed.
I still see my ex-boyfriend occasionally.
Let your brother win occasionally.
Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.

English word "parfois"(occasionally) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Vandemark's Folly" (Herbert Quick)
Fiches du livre - "Ancestors A Novel" (Gertrude At...
Fiches du livre - "The City of Masks" (George Barr...
Fiches du livre - "The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4...
Fiches du livre - "The Automatic Toy Works Manufac...