Sample Sentences forinterpose (editor-reviewed)
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She interposed herself between them before someone threw a punch.interposed = inserted
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They have interposed themselves on the side of our enemy.
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Sometimes a few other netters would interpose comments, but Peter and Val would usually ignore them or change their own comments only slightly to accommodate what had been said. (source)interpose = insert
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He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats. (source)
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The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance. (source)interposed = came (were between)
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Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? (source)interposition = insertion
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The judge interposed. He spoke with the authority that a lifetime in the courts had given him. He said... (source)interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
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I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us.† (source)
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We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. (source)interposition = involvement (insertion between other parties)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", 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 action, education, and observation.
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One of them steps forward slightly, interposing himself between Y.T. and the nearest protochick.† (source)
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Both GERALD and ERIC rise to have a look at photograph, but INSPECTOR Interposes himself between them and photograph.† (source)
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Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste; but, till I come again, No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.† (source)
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He concluded with declaring to Mr Allworthy, that he should have long since informed him of this matter, had not Mr Blifil, by the most earnest interpositions, prevented him.† (source)
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"No, you don't," interposed Tom quickly. (source)interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
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You will not, I hope, consider me as showing any disrespect to your family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your daughter's favor, without having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf.† (source)
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She might have drifted on, in her world of drifters, but for the interposition of Latham Ireland, the lawyer-dilettante lover.† (source)
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