Sample sentences for INTERVENE

1 —as in:
intervened in the war

Definition

get involved — typically to help in a difficult situation

They do not like America to intervene in the Middle East.

intervene = get involved

Other Uses (with this meaning)

We would have finished last week, but the weather intervened.

intervened = interfered

They are opposed to Russian intervention in their country.

intervention = involvement

(editor's note: 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.)

Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?

intervene = get involved

I said I didn't want Shawn in prison but that some type of intervention was needed.
Tara Westover -- Educated

intervention = active involvement to bring about change

(editor's note: 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.)

On and on he would have gone, if Athena had not intervened.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

intervened = gotten involved

I'd admit that I didn't know that much about fashion, but Marlee and I both agreed that someone should have intervened on her behalf.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

intervened = gotten involved (to help)

So I didn't miss the irony of lying to a therapist (to protect Mom) lest I ignite another intervention by the county children's services.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

intervention = involvement

(editor's note: 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.)

The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.
George Orwell -- 1984

intervention = involvement

(editor's note: 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.)

But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

intervention = involvement

(editor's note: 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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2 —as in:
in the intervening years

Definition

passage of time — especially between two events

Decades intervened before the story was written.

intervened = passed

I knew her as a child and then saw her again in college. She had grown into a beautiful woman during the intervening years.

intervening = passing

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Less commonly:

Much more rarely, intervene can mean:

in various senses, including:

to verbally interrupt — as in "Not now!' she intervened."
to be physically between — as in: "You can't walk from one hill to the other because an impassable river intervenes."