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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

In each gallery, timelines intersperse events in the artist’s life with news of the larger world, then and now.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2022

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

From The Verge Jan. 31, 2022

When ready to make the drink, intersperse the watermelon ice cubes with regular ice and cucumber wheels.

From Washington Post Aug. 20, 2021

Some passages I have yet spared, which may relieve the labor of verbal searches, and intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty deserts of barren philology.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William

But he offers the trenchant point that it intersperses high-intensity plays with huddled breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 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

Patel also intersperses blink-and-you’ll-miss-them POV shots, further aligning us with the Kid’s experience and adding to the dizzying, hallucinatory effect of some of these fights.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2024

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

From Science Daily Feb. 6, 2024

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

This is gardening on an epic scale, with vast stalls showing every type of flowers, interspersed with gardening equipment and pit-stops of champagne every few yards.

From BBC May 18, 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 administration has published a heavy stream of video on social media showing war footage, interspersed with pop-culture media such as imagery from the videogame franchise “Call of Duty.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 15, 2026

Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Streams that began as focused chess sessions gradually loosened into something more freewheeling, with Raina interspersing gameplay with jokes and self-deprecating commentary, often engaging directly with the live chat.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

Auster adds more color to the proceedings by interspersing his narrative with samples of his characters’ autobiographical writings: Anna’s stories and Baumgartner’s account of his trip “through the bloodlands of Eastern Europe.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2023

As the movie travels through the mid-’90s into the early 2000s, Rockwell chronicles a rapidly changing New York during the Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg mayorships, accented by interspersing real audio clips and speeches.

From Seattle Times Apr. 10, 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

He also described his impressions of Italian and Scandinavian travel, interspersing his more general observations with linguistic details, as is the case in all his works.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various




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