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  • "Dr. Aguirre believes we can bridge the gaps, and so do I. If I can just change one of my students' lives, I can—"
    "Change the world?" I interject.   (source)
    interject = to quickly insert a comment that interrupts what another is saying
  • "Umberto, he's just a child," interjected Oralia.   (source)
    interjected = quickly inserted (typically interrupts what another is saying)
  • "We'll need food and water and warm clothing."
    "And weapons," Jalil interjected.
    "That, too. What we don't need is..."   (source)
    interjected = to quickly insert a comment that interrupts what another is saying
  • "I'm sure there would," I interject, "he was against it from the first."   (source)
    interject = inserted (a comment)
  • "No, indeed!" I interjected.   (source)
  • the mom interjects as she cleans the floor, to see if I'm okay with his bringing home some homeless guy's dog.†   (source)
  • They talked to me for a bit about how the enchiladas were Famous Waters Enchiladas and Not to Be Missed and about how Gus's curfew was also ten, and how they were inherently distrustful of anyone who gave their kids curfews other than ten, and was I in school—"she's a college student," Augustus interjected—and how the weather was truly and absolutely extraordinary for March, and how in spring all things are new, and they didn't even once ask me about the oxygen or my diagnosis, which was weird and wonderful, and then Augustus said, "Hazel and I are going to watch V for Vendetta so she can see her filmic doppelganger, mid-two thousands Natalie Portman."†   (source)
  • I spent most of my time in Advanced OASIS Studies class annoying our teacher, Mr. Ciders, by pointing out errors in our textbook and raising my hand to interject some relevant bit of Halliday trivia that I (and I alone) thought was interesting.†   (source)
  • "There must be some mistake," Officer Delinko interjected.†   (source)
  • "This is mild?" his mother interjected.†   (source)
  • "Kitty and I will finish them," my dad interjects.†   (source)
  • "If I may," the Count interjected.†   (source)
  • When I was sixteen, I vowed that every time I met a veteran, I would go out of my way to shake his or her hand, even if I had to awkwardly interject to do so.†   (source)
  • "He's not a fugitive after all," my mom interjected.†   (source)
  • "Gentlemen, gentlemen, please!" he interjected.†   (source)
  • "But it is only temporary," Patrick interjected.†   (source)
  • "Hold there, Marks, hold there, I say," interjected the government clerk.†   (source)
  • Mrs. V interjects.†   (source)
  • Gally interjected: "Not if you count the time I—"†   (source)
  • "Say You-Know-Who, will you?" interjected Ron angrily.†   (source)
  • "That may save his life," Cathy interjected.†   (source)
  • Larry interjected, "She got punched or something, right?"†   (source)
  • 'That's a fifty-five-dollar tropical fish, Judge,' the defendant interjected.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps we're being too literal about this song," Mr. Wiggin interjected, but I knew there was no such thing as "too literal" for Owen Meany, who grasped orthodoxy from wherever it could be found.†   (source)
  • Celaena interjected.†   (source)
  • "My point," Reynie interjected, "was that we have to find a way for you and Constance to do better on the quizzes."†   (source)
  • "If I might interject, sir, there may be another use for such a balloon," said Mr. Bayard, the junior wireless officer.†   (source)
  • 'Against regulations,' interjected Root.†   (source)
  • "Actually, there seems to be some memory impairment," interjected Mrs. Swanson in a low voice, toying with the glasses that hung from a chain around her neck.†   (source)
  • "He got wasted," Mom interjected, poking her head out the stage door.†   (source)
  • "Two," Sam interjects.†   (source)
  • "Louie, do it," Licha interjected.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I get it," Mack interjected, stopping in midthrow.†   (source)
  • But whatever I say, I don't want you to interject.†   (source)
  • They'd been coming to the Waystone every Felling night for months, and Kote had never interjected anything of his own before.†   (source)
  • "I was," I interjected.†   (source)
  • "And of course," interjected Jen Taa, oblivious, "they see what we have, and don't understand that you have to work for that sort of life, and they're envious and resentful and blame us for not letting them have it, when if they'd only work ..."†   (source)
  • There are many levels to the Silent City, interjected Jeremiah.†   (source)
  • She started to explain all over again the purpose of her visit—there were these rules forbidding people affiliated with college football programs doing any favors for big-time high school football players, etc.—when Michael interjected.†   (source)
  • "Better yet," Stanford interjected, pointing to some vessels on the map, "threaten this service force here.†   (source)
  • "It was because I missed you," he interjected.†   (source)
  • "Waipo," Dory interjected, "Ruth didn't add any salt.†   (source)
  • I finished my bagel to the sounds of Dorothea's monotone chatter, interjecting a few nods or "uh-huh's" whenever she stopped talking long enough to wait for my response.†   (source)
  • "It's supposed to rain later," Mike Heffner interjects, and everyone laughs.†   (source)
  • Komugi interjects.†   (source)
  • "Baby," she interjected, "you have only one good eye, and the doctor says that's probably not going to change."†   (source)
  • "He knew," the Colonel interjected.†   (source)
  • "Absolutely!" interjects Rory with a cheerful smile.†   (source)
  • "But how did you become a watchdog?" interjected Milo, hoping to change the subject, as Tock was sobbing quite loudly now.†   (source)
  • "Or herself," Angela interjected.†   (source)
  • "She means the three Fates," Damien interjected, beating Shaunee to whatever she was going to add.†   (source)
  • August interjects.†   (source)
  • interjected a tall man who had stepped up to the bar in time to observe the entire scene.†   (source)
  • His thin frame and the shininess of his face make this possible, and also a quality of innocence that surfaces at times—he's apt, for example, in the midst of an erudite discourse on the economic distribution of infectious disease, to startle you by interjecting, eagerly, "Ask me a question about Lord of the Rings."†   (source)
  • 'What your mother means, son,' interjected his father affably one time with that flair for graceful and economical expression Nately admired so much, 'is that old money is better than new money and that the newly rich are never to be esteemed as highly as the newly poor.†   (source)
  • "In admissions," Nigel interjected, engaging Mr. McDaniels in a friendly handshake.†   (source)
  • "She did not," Hormoz interjected.†   (source)
  • "So you're admitting," Raleigh interjected, "that you did have a relationship with this woman."†   (source)
  • Frequently he would interject a similar refrain in thoughtful letters to his department heads when passing down decisions or judgments on matters of government business.†   (source)
  • "He hugged me," I interjected.†   (source)
  • "—eat us," interjected Jack.†   (source)
  • Brutalize her, violate her thoughts, interject, by force if necessary, his own notions of what was right, what was practical.†   (source)
  • "Poor souls, yet very dangerous," Mr. Mompellion interjected.†   (source)
  • "If he's even alive," Graham interjected, and laughed.†   (source)
  • Enoch interjected.†   (source)
  • "Which would make it six months ago," interjected Abbott, softly, looking at Gillette.†   (source)
  • When I had finished describing the incident, Badenhorst interjected in a gruff aggressive manner: "Did you actually witness this assault?"†   (source)
  • "But you know them," interjected Courtney.†   (source)
  • "She starved herself," Rufino interjects irritably.†   (source)
  • "I know all about Paulsson," Spangberg interjected.†   (source)
  • Alessandro interjected.†   (source)
  • Kevin again interjected.†   (source)
  • "Addison's on Debate," Asher interjects, and maybe we can turn the conversation on her, because Drew Leighton is too close to Josh Bennett and my family isn't getting anywhere near Josh Bennett.†   (source)
  • Cole interjected, "That means baldy could have killed Larry and then fled."†   (source)
  • "Which are great for high speeds," Astro interjected.†   (source)
  • "Me," interjected Gabriel hastily.†   (source)
  • "I think the standards are a trifle higher at Harvard, Pig," Tradd interjected mildly.†   (source)
  • "The scurvy," Nathan interjected, "she means she'd had the scurvy, which was cured as soon as the Russians took over—"†   (source)
  • "Yet here, of course....?" interjected the Overlord blandly.†   (source)
  • Wringing her hands and on the verge of tears, she begged him to sit down a moment and, throwing herself into a chair and getting up again, spoke incoherently, in a high-pitched plaintive singsong, stumbling over her words and repeatedly interjecting: "What do you think?"†   (source)
  • He slowly spooned food into his mouth without trying to interject.†   (source)
  • "We've gotten unwed mothers out of jail, things like that," Georgia interjected.†   (source)
  • "Well, he would look a bit of a prat carrying a necklace," interjected Ron.†   (source)
  • "Sit down if he does," Emmett interjected.†   (source)
  • "Were they Death Eaters or Ministry people?" interjected Hermione.†   (source)
  • "She's probably just resting," I interjected.†   (source)
  • "I spend time with Alice, too," I interjected.†   (source)
  • Victor interjected, "Lake Windsor, home of that Gino chump."†   (source)
  • "Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" interjected Sirius.†   (source)
  • "Matilda is a bit young for suitors," interjected Mother.†   (source)
  • "Don't get your family slaughtered for pride," Carlisle interjected quietly.†   (source)
  • "Alby," Minho finally interjected, relieving Thomas.†   (source)
  • "And of course," interjected Rose-and-Azure, "those all have to be paid."†   (source)
  • "And," interjected Jesus, "to that degree you will live in fear."†   (source)
  • They'll know it was the Hills, ese," Bone interjected.†   (source)
  • "But doesn't make you want to puke," Henry interjected.†   (source)
  • "Depends who you ask," a guard interjected.†   (source)
  • "It would fall under reckless use of sympathy," Lorren interjected coolly.†   (source)
  • "Here's a coincidence happens every morning," his buddy interjected.†   (source)
  • "The subject struggled with the no-talking step," Vee interjected.†   (source)
  • "Ah, and is this the groom?" interjected a woman in his eagerly hovering group.†   (source)
  • "Not Seattle," Charlie interjected, his eyebrows pulling together.†   (source)
  • "And he was a Parselmouth," interjected Harry.†   (source)
  • "Ma'am, just to confirm," the cabbie's voice interjected, sounding tense.†   (source)
  • "You brought him here," Clary interjected.†   (source)
  • Natalie, seeming distressed, tried to interject.†   (source)
  • Oh, that's ridiculous," his mother interjected.†   (source)
  • "I talk to her all the time," Claire interjected.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid we gave her a stomach virus," Reynie interjected.†   (source)
  • "Father, I'm not sure that would help," Maxon interjected.†   (source)
  • "Only rogue vampires drink human blood from living people," interjected Alec.†   (source)
  • Hey, it ain't my fault," Curly had finally interjected.†   (source)
  • "I'm not dangerous at all," Renesmee interjected.†   (source)
  • "Sorry," interjected Harry, "but Death spoke to them?"†   (source)
  • Katherine interjected, pointing up Third Street away from the Jefferson Building.†   (source)
  • "You mean," Mack interjected a little sarcastically, "that I can't just ask, 'What Would Jesus Do'?"†   (source)
  • Simmon listened intently, occasionally interjecting a word or two.†   (source)
  • We're guessing they'll pick it up before too long," August interjected.†   (source)
  • "You're right," Sticky interjected miserably.†   (source)
  • "Aro couldn't hear her," Edward interjected.†   (source)
  • "Hermione," interjected Harry, who considered this a low blow, "he just saved my —"†   (source)
  • Gruffly, the sergeant interjected: "Aw, the kid's jerking our chain, is all.†   (source)
  • "Burned down during their wedding," Graham interjected.†   (source)
  • "Aaron," the smith's prentice interjected, not looking up from his drink.†   (source)
  • Change into her Mother Paula's costume," Officer Delinko interjected.†   (source)
  • "It'll be better when it's dark anyway," Thibault interjected.†   (source)
  • "Is my house," several voices interjected in chorus.†   (source)
  • "He was too busy being adorably self-involved to notice," Hassan interjected.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, Mrs Staples, hunter,' interjected the diplomat quietly.†   (source)
  • He opens his mouth to interject, but I hold up a hand to stop him.†   (source)
  • "Um, Bella," Alice interjected in an anxious voice.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense," interjected Miss Boon sharply.†   (source)
  • "Maybe there's a compromise," I interjected.†   (source)
  • "It was an accident," Frank tried to interject.†   (source)
  • "No, Max," interjected Miss Boon urgently.†   (source)
  • " 'Right,' Mr. Conklin," interjected the DCI, "meaning the assassin, Carlos the Jackal."†   (source)
  • "I put mine in the dog basket," interjects Fran.†   (source)
  • "God works his miracles through the meek, not the mighty," Padre Esteban interjected.†   (source)
  • "I'm not thinking that either," Sophia interjected.†   (source)
  • "Scott," Mr. Lukens interjected, "let's not torture Mr. Bristow just yet.†   (source)
  • "Please," he interjected, "give me a chance.†   (source)
  • "But," Casey interjected, "with your experience, answer my last question.†   (source)
  • "No," interjected Astaroth, "she is alive, Max.†   (source)
  • "Which," Leff interjected, "I must advise you, we will be making a motion to suppress.†   (source)
  • "I've got a date tonight, so I'll be skipping dinner," Hassan interjected.†   (source)
  • 'You make them sound like a collection of paranoids,' interjected Panov.†   (source)
  • "On the second floor," Raffaello interjected.†   (source)
  • "You have discussed everyone and everything but me," interjected Sir Olaf; stirring irritably.†   (source)
  • "Where father was a very wise king," interjected Hap.†   (source)
  • I won't— "—let your battalion down," Max interjected.†   (source)
  • "Doctor Webb," interjected John St. Jacques spontaneously, as if the clarification were mandatory.†   (source)
  • "That's a different story," interjected the bird a bit more amiably.†   (source)
  • "No two descriptions have been alike," interjected Abbott.†   (source)
  • You're being rebellious," my dad interjects.†   (source)
  • I halfheartedly interjected, "you've traveled a lot.†   (source)
  • "If you last the first, mon ami," interjected the Belgian.†   (source)
  • Don't trouble yourself, Madam Director," interjected Lord Vyndra smoothly.†   (source)
  • "It's not just Rowan's need," interjected Miss Boon, motioning for Max to be still.†   (source)
  • "We scored two runs against a great team," interjected Jose.†   (source)
  • "By an ally of the old king," Bert interjected.†   (source)
  • Even more reason for me— "To do your job and let others do theirs," interjected David.†   (source)
  • "When you wander the house at night," Ruth suddenly interjects, "you do not do as you say."†   (source)
  • "Never proven!" interjected the Lavier woman defiantly.†   (source)
  • Let's not overlook the younger ones," Miss Boon interjected, casting a smoldering glance at David.†   (source)
  • "And not a single one earned," Alessandro interjected.†   (source)
  • Well, they better start now or else they's gonna forfeit," interjected Coach Hicks.†   (source)
  • "God help the boy," interjected Mrs. Cooper.†   (source)
  • "Oh," the major interjected, slumped in his chair, almost motionless.†   (source)
  • My latissimus nub— "Will be fine," interjected David.†   (source)
  • You're not, Marie," interjected the first.†   (source)
  • "The good news is that David should be all right," interjected Scott McDaniels.†   (source)
  • "And what do you need a best man for, William?" she interjected.†   (source)
  • "That's Padre Esteban's job," interjected Norberto.†   (source)
  • Because people like you had to be controlled," interjected the deputy on the director's right.†   (source)
  • "It's not Jason's fault," interjected Miss Boon.†   (source)
  • We aren't here to quarrel with you," interjected David.†   (source)
  • It is Mr. McLean's attitude that we object to, General," Alexander interjected.†   (source)
  • "Were murdered," Kohler interjected.†   (source)
  • "Who attacked us," Piper interjected.†   (source)
  • Hermione interjected.†   (source)
  • "Actually," Anderson interjected, glancing up, "not many people know this, but there is one hexagonal coffer in the dome that actually swings open like a portal, and you can peer down through it and—"†   (source)
  • 'Anyway, that's not the point,' interjected Tonks, whose pink hair seemed to offend Aunt Petunia more than all the rest put together, for she closed her eyes rather than look at her.†   (source)
  • "Your husband," the Count interjected.†   (source)
  • Ron interjected angrily.†   (source)
  • "I got one for you," Aech interjected.†   (source)
  • Martinez interjected.†   (source)
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