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  • verb Present participle of intersperse.

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Examples

  • She wrote the same commentary in Hindi, interspersing the original stories with personal insights.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • She wrote the same commentary in Hindi, interspersing the original stories with personal insights.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • I like the idea of interspersing text only slides with picture slides.

    Bionic Teaching 2009

  • It wasn't that the questions were getting harder -- I had mixed up the tables, interspersing easy questions with harder ones -- so what was it?

    Want to Succeed? Stop Trying So Hard Peter Bregman 2011

  • Meanwhile, PI grandmasters extended their oeuvre with fresh, exciting work: Sue Grafton brought Kinsey Millhone one letter closer to victory in her zero-sum alphabet-game with "V Is for Vengeance," which reinvigorates this long-running series by interspersing third-person chapters into a traditional first-person narrative.

    And Then There Were Ten Tom Nolan 2011

  • Skirted birds of a northern wilderness, skewing the view of passersby and interspersing among pedestrians in their tunnel vision walks down crowded

    Remembering the Beauties of the Island Joe Sullivan 2011

  • I start playing “Layla,” interspersing licks from Clapton and Allman.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • Annie Chu also pointed out the value of interspersing the concentrated focus on projects with a refreshing of the tumblers.

    Tibby Rothman: Architects on Inspiration: It's Not Quite 'Ah Ha' Tibby Rothman 2011

  • Skirted birds of a northern wilderness, skewing the view of passersby and interspersing among pedestrians in their tunnel vision walks down crowded

    Remembering the Beauties of the Island Joe Sullivan 2011

  • Nowadays, out of the authors who produce science fiction and fantastic literature, a lot of writers have been interspersing fantastic elements into their achievements.

    MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part I ) 2009

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