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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

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

They intersperse the science with accounts of what forests have traditionally meant to the peoples who live in them.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 2022

Some passages I have yet spared, which may relieve the labor of verbal searches, and intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty deserts of barren philology.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

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

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

Each will exert an influence on our weather this week, which means spells of potentially hot sunshine interspersed with occasional bursts of rain.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 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

The roar of engines interspersed with rolling, cranking sounds like chains hoisting machinery in an old, grimy factory.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

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

Wildhack then introduced Boeheim, who received a 20-second standing ovation and spoke for 11 minutes, interspersing his comments with humor, characteristic defiance and uncharacteristic emotion.

From Seattle Times Mar. 10, 2023

Bit by bit Alf told the tale, interspersing his story with dismal groans.

From The Young Engineers in Nevada Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock




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