How to Use episodic in a Sentence

episodic

adjective
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  • But even there, the episodic storytelling helps, as the show rarely gets bogged down for long by angst or despair.
    — Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
  • Be sure to follow me on this blog for all my episodic TV reviews, game reviews and more.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • In truth, episodic memories are more than recollections of past events.
    — György Buzsáki, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
  • The movie’s worth it for Garbo alone, though its episodic nature gives the film a natural ceiling.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Steven has more moral authority than anyone else on episodic TV.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2024
  • That hasn’t stopped streamers from trying, and last year, Tencent debuted its own live-action, episodic take on Liu’s book.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the new scheme will raise the minimum budget for episodic programs while also creating a new category for limited series.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Many symptoms are episodic, becoming intense in unpredictable, recurrent flares that occur in response to triggers or for seemingly no reason at all.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • What has been like to work on that scale in episodic TV?
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • The novel is episodic, with a tricky structure and a shambling kind of plot.
    — The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
  • But the problem isn’t that The Last of Us is an episodic, monster-of-the-week adventure.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Danny: For me, the difference from the movies is, this is episodic.
    — Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • Some lives have a long story arc, and others are episodic.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • They’d be paid on an episodic basis for 24 episodes over a 40-week schedule.
    — Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Branton had never been this far north and, at first, the episodic fog surprised her.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The episodic structure felt like a perfect fit to drop our EP with one episode per song and one music video per episode.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The episode that explored the aftermath won a WGA Award for episodic drama.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Day-to-day episodic updates on social media helped to fill that void.
    — Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The rhythms may be episodic, but the ambience could hardly be more Assayesque.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • The first three episodes of Season 3 drop on June 3rd with weekly episodic releases the next five weeks for a total of eight.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Like gallstone pain, the pain from kidney stones is often episodic and will come in waves, Dr. Brauning says.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2022
  • These tools work well for dealing with episodic attacks.
    — Gina Neff rumman Chowdhury, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • That kind of episodic drama wasn’t a good fit for a single article, which would need to be short and focused.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But Slack is fleeting and episodic, designed to transact but not to capture.
    — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The ads will be shown in episodic fashion each Monday in November.
    — Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The bluffs recede at an average rate of six inches per year, but the erosion is episodic, and large pieces can fall away at any time.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And the sleep phase…puts these objects, these events…into the right context and in this way enhances a full blown episodic memory.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Scripter finalists were selected from a field of 80 films and 56 episodic series.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Web series are episodic by nature; there is more than one episode and usually no less than three episodes.
    — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The episodic release helped build the same sense of tumult and chaos as the actual characters are feeling.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022

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