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interspersein‧ter‧sperse /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs $ -tərˈspɜːrs/ verb [transitive] intersperseOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin interspersus ‘interspersed’, from sparsus; ➔ SPARSE VERB TABLEintersperse |
Present | I, you, we, they | intersperse | | he, she, it | intersperses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | interspersed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have interspersed | | he, she, it | has interspersed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had interspersed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will intersperse | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have interspersed |
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Present | I | am interspersing | | he, she, it | is interspersing | | you, we, they | are interspersing | Past | I, he, she, it | was interspersing | | you, we, they | were interspersing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been interspersing | | he, she, it | has been interspersing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been interspersing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be interspersing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been interspersing |
► be interspersed with something- However, since they are interspersed with shots of debris from the loch bed they are inadmissible as evidence.
- It is also fruit-growing country and the vineyards are interspersed with orchards of apple, plum and pear.
- Row after row of modest little brick houses are interspersed with delis and corner restaurants.
- The rumbling becomes louder and is interspersed with flashes of lightning as the sky blackens.
- The small annual profits of the Edinburgh and Dundee clubs were interspersed with losses and no dividends were distributed to shareholders.
- These and other shrubs were interspersed with small, scraggly larch and black spruce trees.
- They were interspersed with rows of vines, whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work.
- Yet most mines are interspersed with farming communities.
► intersperse something with something- The 12-minute program was interspersed with 30-second commercials.
1be interspersed with something if something is interspersed with a particular kind of thing, it has a lot of them in it: sunny periods interspersed with showers2intersperse something with something to put something in between pieces of speech or writing, parts of a film etc |