interlace

Plaid, checked and polka-dotted textiles sewn into zigzagging, overlapped “Reconstructions” shook up the usual interlace produced by a conventional textile loom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

I reach for Michael's hand and interlace our fingers.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

On their way out of a spider’s bottom, the protein building blocks in silk, called spidroins, fold themselves and interlace, creating a highly organized structure without guidance from any outside force.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

The trio, which date to the 10th and 11th centuries, are adorned with crosses and Celtic interlace patterns similar to the ones seen on the stones inside the church.”

From Fox News ● Apr. 5, 2019

For the first time, I notice they don’t interlace smoothly.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The violin spins, the orchestra interlaces musical threads and occasionally looms over the soloist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

Like the concluding scene of a Shakespearean romance, it interlaces a variety of jangling, disparate elements into the semblance of cosmic harmony.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2019

They disbanded after eight years in what she describes as “fraught” circumstances, and the sense that her band members never took her seriously still interlaces her conversation.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019

Rambling as in a Richard Linklater film, they stroll at a lusciously easy speed, as the show’s attention to place interlaces with a search for self.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2018

And her palm brushes the inside of your wrist as she interlaces her fingers with yours to pull you to the door.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

"Dao" depicts two interlaced events: a wedding near Paris and a funeral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Gathering bits and pieces as rendered in English, the songs are remarkably conversational and down to earth, with humor and fragments of pop culture interlaced with poetic musings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

The Phryges are red, white and blue to reflect France’s tri-colored flag and wear the gold Paris 2024 logo — including the Olympic symbol of five interlaced rings — on their chests.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

After a 34-32 loss to Utah on Saturday at the Coliseum, the Heisman-winning quarterback sat on the bench, interlaced his fingers and covered his eyes as Utah players flooded onto the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

Held against the breast, next to the heart, the same interlaced hands were those of a lover who pleadeth for mercy from his beloved.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

An interlacing of memoir and anecdote, it begins with the author as a young boy, growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., left agog by the Bronx Zoo’s immersive Amazon exhibit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Piker began surreptitiously interlacing those uploads with the rest of the company’s Facebook library.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

Besides interlacing environmental, scientific and social themes that whirl through zealotry and nihilism, it’s also a first-contact scenario that forces a reckoning.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

Coldplay is renowned for interlacing its values with its shows, such as the band’s push for environmental sustainability.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien