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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

The brothers continued on as a duo after the other musicians dropped out, but because their folk music repertoire was limited, they began to intersperse it with comedy.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

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

Granted that the first half of the 'novel' is beautiful in style, does not Jefferies suddenly break his method, introduce his own personality, intersperse abrupt disquisitions on food, illness, and Fleet Street?

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

Vargas Llosa intersperses the story with nimbly delivered informational chapters explaining the history and influences of the Peruvian vals, or waltz, which synthesizes European and indigenous musical styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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

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

In interspersed interviews, Knoxville and his pals reminisce about their time together with a distinct wistfulness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The walkways will be interspersed with plazas, small parks and exercise stations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Amarante Cordova was already talking to the approximately seventy-five people present, most of them either middle-aged or quite old men, interspersed by a few women, and maybe a dozen kids.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

And it is always of use to decorate the nakedness of science, by interspersing such observations and narratives as may amuse the mind, and excite curiosity.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson


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