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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of interlay.

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Examples

  • "The information he gave and the fact that he said most people in townships were farm workers removed from farms were interlaid with hate speech, generalisations and racism," Steytler said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The ozokerite is embedded in a very stiff blue clay for a depth of several hundred feet; below, it is interlaid with rock.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

  • Under the direction of the Professor the balance of the day was spent in gathering samples of minerals, and George, in one of his searches, brought a sample of very peculiar greenish ore, interlaid with patches of brown substance.

    The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island Roger Thompson Finlay

  • Sliced crosswise and interlaid with jelly it became jelly cake.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

  • The sky ahead of them was wide-streaked with gold, as if for a symbol, interlaid with sooty clouds in silhouette; on either side the mountains rose from penumbral darkness to clear-cut heights still bright from the slanting radiance.

    The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Elevated upon pedestals of porphyry, they formed the graceful entrance to a semicircular flight of marble steps which led from the lake to a broad terrace interlaid with parti-colored marbles, in every variety of device which taste could conceive, or art execute.

    The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

  • Then the other which is on the left side, whereunto in the same manner two pipes answer, which are as large, or larger then the former; to wit, the veinous artery, which was also il named, forasmuch as its nothing else but a vein which comes from the lungs, where its divided into several branches interlaid with those of the arterious vein, and those of that pipe which is called the Whistle, by which the breath enters.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

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