dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

intercede
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • So, he interceded: "Yaroslav meant no offense, my good man.†  (source)
  • "He would have heard a shout," Trudy said, interceding again.†  (source)
  • And then Josh proceeds to make a case for colored lights, and he and I argue back and forth until Daddy intercedes and says we should just do half and half.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 7 word variations
  • I begged him to intercede for Theresa Carmody but he never did a thing, stood up there on his pedestal with the little smile, the birds, the lambs, and didn't give a fiddler's fart about Theresa or me.†  (source)
  • According to Luther, people did not need the intercession of the church or its priests in order to receive God's forgiveness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • "She'll be fine, miss," Anne interceded.†  (source)
  • The knitters of Barracks 28 became the praying heart of the vast diseased body that was Ravensbruck, interceding for all in the camp—guards, under Betsie's prodding, as well as prisoners.†  (source)
  • Marie St. Clare felt the loss of Eva as deeply as she could feel anything; and, as she was a woman that had a great faculty of making everybody unhappy when she was, her immediate attendants had still stronger reason to regret the loss of their young mistress, whose winning ways and gentle intercessions had so often been a shield to them from the tyrannical and selfish exactions of her mother.†  (source)
  • "Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.†  (source)
  • In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again.†  (source)
  • It was quite possible, he reasoned, that events would intercede before he had to tell his story.†  (source)
  • Uncle Abner, we are in need a your intercession.†  (source)
  • How would she have interceded?†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)