interposing

Example Sentences

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This device is so effective, in fact, that Kijak borrows it wholesale, repeatedly interposing these moments of gay serendipity, many of them identical to those in “Home Movies.”

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

The message was encoded by mechanically interposing or not interposing a three-inch block of brass in the muon beam every time a 12-billion-electron-volt synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory emitted a short burst of particles.

From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2022

I was doing depositions last week and we’re interposing and everybody’s really nasty, and then we’re off the record and we’re like, “Does anybody want salads? Do you want a veggie burger?”

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2019

They would have to be available both for peacekeeping duties and to underpin preventive diplomacy by interposing themselves between potential adversaries.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2016

Michael moved in front of the machine, interposing himself between Octavian and the two Greek demigods.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan