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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

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

Or even in the opening month, which will be a particularly challenging stretch for the Sounders in which they intersperse Champions League games with MLS while trying to integrate key new players like Albert Rusnak.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

The same holds true for Peloton’s bootcamp classes, which intersperse floor exercises with cycling / running.

From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2022

I flattered myself, however, that the elegance of my composition, and the moral and political reflections with which I intended to intersperse the work, would compensate for the paucity of facts in my narrative.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth

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

A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperses the mountains.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

“L.A. Interchanges” intersperses personal memories with a much-needed roll call of bars, clubs, publications, organizations and individuals whose names still haven’t made it into mainstream LGBTQ+ histories of Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

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

Unfortunately, the play is fundamentally modest and even intimate, essentially a courtroom procedural interspersed with flashbacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

With a growing online fanbase, he started interspersing TikTok cover versions with snippets of originals.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

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

“We have really made full use out of video, out of tweets and email, and interspersing technology with live statements by the witnesses and members.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2022

Try interspersing it with shorter plants and a little pruning to keep it looking tidy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

Both of these pieces are mainly in blank-verse, with a frequent interspersing of couplets.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson


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