Intervenes
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Examples
- From the palace to the gloomy prison is but a step--one might almost jump across the narrow canal that intervenes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A low pass, over which there is a wagon road crossing the hill, and near which there is a railroad tunnel, intervenes between the two hills. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If we cut the wire connecting the poles of a battery, the current ceases because an air gap intervenes and electricity does not readily pass through air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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