intersperse

Example Sentences

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The first act of the play is broken into short scenes, interspersed with snippets of interrogations of various women claiming to have had visions.

From Seattle Times

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

This much-awarded pandemic novel, interspersed with flashing paragraphs of poetry, is a gripping read, by turns strange, harrowing and darkly funny, and with a pervasive Australian character.

From New York Times

She also intersperses her narrative with excerpts from Lincoln’s speeches and other historical commentaries on the intensifying conflict between North and South.

From Washington Post

Her plate always more so resembled soup with some pasta interspersed throughout — the focus was on the sauce and the more, the better.

From Salon