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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

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

They intersperse the science with accounts of what forests have traditionally meant to the peoples who live in them.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

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

From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2022

We have just got a splendid billiard table, and Hopie and I intersperse cannons and winning hazards with literature.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton

In the book, subtitled “Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk,” the author intersperses dispatches from her trip with harrowing personal reflections on marriage, motherhood and the self.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Paint the Night is a vibrant, high-energy show that intersperses dance, tech and the requisite amount of evening sparkle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

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

The campus of High Point University, a favorite of wealthy families, gives way to industrial pockets, where buzzing factories are interspersed with padlocked, graffitied plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

But the planning now is interspersed with prayers for a speedy post-surgery recovery that would allow him to make good on his plans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The centerpiece is the three minutes where Travis calmly narrates the plane crash interspersed with him drumming, amid flames, in a way that captures each emotional beat of what he went through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The recipes are interspersed with stories from Kwon’s childhood in the store and illustrated spreads devoted to ingredients such as seaweed and tofu, explaining their varieties, particular virtues and best uses.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

At the grave site, standing with Ernest, Mollie could hear the old people’s song of death, their chants interspersed with weeping.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

Sister Sylvester led the audience through a communal reading of her intricately designed, handmade books while El Shazly performed her score live, interspersing moody electronics and vintage Egyptian recordings with her own, smoky-hued singing.

From New York Times ● May 4, 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

Try interspersing it with shorter plants and a little pruning to keep it looking tidy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

Lady Garnett had been talking so far in a somewhat desultory fashion, interspersing her words with brief caresses to the pug who was curled up in her lap.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson


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