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intersperse
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  • Dissonant notes intersperse with the melody.  (source)
    intersperse = at irregular intervals
  • He heard snarling, interspersed by a repeated hooting cry.  (source)
    interspersed = mixed at times
  • Interspersed through their ranks were rows of hover tanks and gunships.  (source)
    Interspersed = mixed irregularly
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  • The roar of engines interspersed with rolling, cranking sounds like chains hoisting machinery in an old, grimy factory.  (source)
    interspersed = mixed at times
  • The woman in the back seat tried to strike up a conversation with me, interspersing bits of English and Farsi.†  (source)
  • She was captivated by the way in which Nathan, ever intent upon his cooking, was still able to intersperse his observations on gastronomie with scientific detail, largely nutritional.†  (source)
  • They were heading for the largest collection of lights he had yet seen, a huge, sprawling crisscrossing mass, glittering in lines and grids, interspersed with patches of deepest black.  (source)
  • For more than an hour Porter held them at bay: cowering, screaming, threatening, urinating, and interspersing all of it with pleas for a woman.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Moore continued to murmur "Red ten on a black knave," Miss Quested to assist her, and to intersperse among the intricacies of the play details about the hyena, the engagement, the Maharani of Mudkul, the Bhattacharyas, and the day generally, whose rough desiccated surface acquired as it receded a definite outline, as India itself might, could it be viewed from the moon.†  (source)
  • When Dr. Kimball lectured on World War II, the screen showed rows of fighter planes interspersed with the skeletal remains of bombed cities.  (source)
  • In spite of her continual anxiety that the dishes should be passed round correctly and that everyone should taste them, in spite of the agonising cough which interrupted her every minute and seemed to have grown worse during the last few days, she hastened to pour out in a half whisper to Raskolnikov all her suppressed feelings and her just indignation at the failure of the dinner, interspersing her remarks with lively and uncontrollable laughter at the expense of her visitors and especially of her landlady.†  (source)
  • I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.†  (source)
  • Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened.  (source)
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