Interspersed
[intə'spə:st]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Intersperse
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Examples
- Here the spinster aunt burst into fit number two, of hysteric laughter interspersed with screams. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the Statesman, enquiries into the principles of Method are interspersed with discussions about Politics. Plato. The Republic.
- The noises were sufficiently removed and shut out from the counting-house to blend into a busy hum, interspersed with periodical clinks and thumps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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