intersperse
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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 the fall of 2023, the museum will intersperse about a dozen of Hendricks’s portraits among its own holdings in an exhibition at its temporary home, Frick Madison.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Or even in the opening month, which will be a particularly challenging stretch for the Sounders in which they intersperse Champions League games with MLS while trying to integrate key new players like Albert Rusnak.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
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
The simplest plan will be to give a few instances of the different kinds, and to intersperse among them such further explanations as may seem necessary.
From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
Mr. Dillon intersperses his more academic chapters with occasional descriptions of Shanghai’s neighborhoods, temples and shops as they appear today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
“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
Right now the site is a lattice of hulking steel frames covering an area the size of 30 football pitches, interspersed with cranes, earth movers and drainage channels.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
U.S. government accounts have posted stylized videos of strikes, some interspersed with movie or videogame footage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
Virtually treeless, it features frosted picture-book mountains that are interspersed with rugged, lava-strewn terrain, giving the landscape an unnatural, almost lunar appearance: American astronauts trained there before their voyages to the moon.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
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
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
Panteley and the old woman sat side by side at Yegorushka's feet, talking in hissing whispers and interspersing their speech with sighs and yawns.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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