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- adjective
Placed atintervals amongst other things. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
intersperse .
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Examples
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Cammy glimpsed her name interspersed in the note Bekka opened onto her desk.
Loser/Queen Jodi Lynn Anderson 2010
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Preston writes and speaks eloquently and emphatically — his responses to questions often best captured in interspersed italicizations.
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Preston writes and speaks eloquently and emphatically — his responses to questions often best captured in interspersed italicizations.
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Preston writes and speaks eloquently and emphatically — his responses to questions often best captured in interspersed italicizations.
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Preston writes and speaks eloquently and emphatically — his responses to questions often best captured in interspersed italicizations.
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Remind me never to attend again -- without bringing a missal, particularly for the 90 minutes of the readings in Latin, interspersed with the occasionally recognizable "Per omnia saecula saeculorums."
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Mr. Satterthwaite floundered wildly in Italian interspersed with German -- the nearest he could get in the hurry of the moment to Spanish - He was desolated and ashamed, he explained haltingly.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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Then followed many words in Italian, interspersed only here and there with an American proper name.
Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In Samuel Francis Aaron 1899
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I answered him, however, in English, interspersed with such
Afar in the Forest William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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These boys crowd together in the back and sneak cigarettes and talk about fast cars in Chinese interspersed with English words like hemi, four-barrel, and "gottamatch" (which they say as if were a single word).
Chancelucky 2008
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