TIME AND AGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time and again mean? 

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

1. repeatedly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME AND AGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeatedly

Synonyms:

again and again; over and over; over and over again; time and again; time and time again

Context example:

the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text

 Context examples 

Time and again, whenever opportunity offered, he hinted about the purpose of his business.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Time and again White Fang had attempted to knock Cherokee off his feet; but the difference in their height was too great.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Time and again he fought it out with Leach who fought back always, like a wildcat, tooth and nail and fist, until stretched, exhausted or unconscious, on the deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Time and again he was cornered, and the thing repeated, though he was in poor condition, or Buck could not so easily have overtaken him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Time and again and many times he ranged the horse up to the gate in the effort to close it and each time the horse became frightened and backed and plunged away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Time and again he nerved himself up to call, but under the doubts that assailed him his determination died away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yet I have seen the same man, time and again, fly into the most outrageous passion over a trifle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Time and again the impulse surged over White Fang, and each time, as he yielded to it, he was checked by the master's voice.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He could not understand, and time and again, in despair, defeated and depressed, he returned to his article.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was too tired to thrash my arms about and warm myself, but I found strength time and again to chafe her hands and feet to restore the circulation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)