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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlard.

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Examples

  • He also interlards his narrative with copious commercial plugs, dropped names, celebrity endorsements, and testimonials.

    Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

  • Now the hard-hearted Bella interlards her speech with invective!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Of course, after a little it becomes simply meaningless, and you scarcely notice it, but the haphazard and indiscriminate way, quite regardless of any meaning, in which he interlards ordinary sentences with beastly words, at first revolts you.

    With Rimington L. March Phillipps

  • His revenues are showered down from the fat of the land, and he interlards his own grease among to help the drippings.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • It is then that the young writer resorts to the use of poetry, quoted and original, with which he interlards his stories and the speeches of his characters.

    Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett

  • Once more we venture to point a parallel on the modern stage, in the vaudeville comedian who interlards his dancing with comments such as: "I hate to do this, but it's the only way I can earn a living."

    The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

  • My father interlards his table talk, and introduces all of his wise new axioms on economy and efficiency and growth, with a constant procession of 'Sam says' and 'Sam thinks.'

    Windy McPherson's Son Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • His object is to arouse the curiosity of his audience, he interlards his sermon with copious quotations from poets and philosophers, and in return for all his pains he will very probably be ridiculed by some passing philosopher, as Paul was at Athens.

    The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904

  • Turgid Talmage must likewise unload; Talmage, who presumes to teach not only theology but political economy; who interlards his sermons with strange visions of Heaven, dreams of Hell, and still more wonderful hints on how to make a people terrestrially prosperous.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • He still interlards his talk with personal appeals for approbation, for concurrence, for encouragement; but it is clear he does not expect an answer, and his demands for sympathy have little more personal value than the reiterated statement in the Litany that we are miserable sinners has in the mouth of many respectable church-goers.

    The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

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