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intersperse

[in-ter-spurs] / ˌɪn tərˈspɜrs /


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While Hartman believes it’s best to intersperse the music between races, it’s not the only way to do things.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2024

The brothers continued on as a duo after the other musicians dropped out, but because their folk music repertoire was limited, they began to intersperse it with comedy.

From Seattle Times Dec. 27, 2023

She asked that the new pieces be about 10 minutes long, and that they come in two or three fragments that she could intersperse with other scores without violating the meaning of the music.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2023

The same holds true for Peloton’s bootcamp classes, which intersperse floor exercises with cycling / running.

From The Verge Jan. 31, 2022

Some funny incidents too, intersperse themselves from time to time.

From Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

Vargas Llosa intersperses the story with nimbly delivered informational chapters explaining the history and influences of the Peruvian vals, or waltz, which synthesizes European and indigenous musical styles.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Egoyan intersperses scenes set in the present with home video footage of Jeanine as a child, shot by her own father, blindfolded and doing strange dances in the woods.

From Salon Mar. 12, 2025

A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperses the mountains.

From Science Daily Feb. 6, 2024

Featuring international short films, each festival now runs under two hours and intersperses serious works with the purely comic.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2022

A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Anecdotes and analysis are interspersed with photos of all sorts of sofas and couches, calling into question ideas about where and how we find respite and support — or not.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Each will exert an influence on our weather this week, which means spells of potentially hot sunshine interspersed with occasional bursts of rain.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

The walkways will be interspersed with plazas, small parks and exercise stations.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

“Lorne” walks viewers through the Monday-to-Saturday schedule, interspersed with memories from cast members, writers, producers and NBC execs past and present.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2026

The new film began with trailers, jaggedly cut scenes interspersed with flashes of light.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But Blake, a former political speechwriter, does his best to make the case, interspersing facts about parasomnia, its more troubling variants and real-life victims throughout the novel.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2024

He told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, who he'd been teaching to question authority, interspersing his performance with video clips.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2023

It reshaped the landscape of action storytelling with its revolutionary third-person perspective and its interspersing of loud, chaos with more soothing, relaxing moments.

From Washington Post Mar. 17, 2023

Many tried to present themselves as real people by interspersing Iranian poetry and photos of Persian food between political messages.

From New York Times Aug. 24, 2022

For two weeks he lay, interspersing long periods of unconsciousness with hours of wild, delirious raving.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx




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