On Saturday afternoon, he sat unsmiling in his newsroom, dressed in black and blue, dragging occasionally on a menthol cigarette.

Carol Goodman's story occasionally drags and strays into melodrama, but the resolution of the quest at its center rewards the patient reader.

She flubbed a few vocal entrances, and her self-consciousness occasionally dragged the band's energy down.

A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.

His appearance reminded Harry of a character that might be found in one of the mutant zombie holovids that Tom occasionally dragged him to.

For three months, Ms. Paddock attended several shows a week, occasionally dragging along less-than-enthusiastic friends, none of whom knew the extent of her obsession.

Lobbyists and special-interest groups still occasionally drag their constituents up to the Capitol to buttonhole legislators, because they have always done it.

The ceilings were bathed in worn fishing nets that occasionally dragged too low for anyone taller than 6 feet.

Although in this section the exposition occasionally drags, and the conclusion feels reductive, "Monkey King" is still a considerable achievement, the work of a writer worthy of serious attention.

She demurred about how hungry she was when the entrees finally arrived (did I mention that the kitchen occasionally drags its feet?)