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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

You can intersperse more prolonged bouts with quick bursts, whether downsizing clothing or a tool drawer.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 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 app takes bits from Anchor and bits from Clubhouse — users can host DJ sets, like they would a radio show, and intersperse songs with talk.

From The Verge ● Oct. 26, 2021

That a grave historian should intersperse the innumerable trivialities of the Worthies may be only less shocking.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

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

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

Unsettled weather looks likely to continue beyond that with spells of rain interspersed with drier, brighter interludes.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

“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

They had a brief exchange interspersed with “nyets” and stomps from the Altaian woman’s foot.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

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

And so it was that Forestier restored the park, interspersing bulb-planted lawns with prized horticultural collections, including peonies, irises and waterlilies, along with the classic rose garden.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 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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