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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 the fall of 2023, the museum will intersperse about a dozen of Hendricks’s portraits among its own holdings in an exhibition at its temporary home, Frick Madison.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

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

You should intersperse passing observations or short songs.

From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

But he offers the trenchant point that it intersperses high-intensity plays with huddled breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

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 poem was interspersed with grunts from the old lady on the bed, which no one except Chacko seemed to notice.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

As the movie travels through the mid-’90s into the early 2000s, Rockwell chronicles a rapidly changing New York during the Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg mayorships, accented by interspersing real audio clips and speeches.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

He had such a way of interspersing enlivening comments between the speakers.

From Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow by F. Jewell


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