Crossword clues for interspersed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intersperse \In`ter*sperse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interspersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Interspersing.] [L. interspersus interspersed; inter between, among + spargere to scatter. See Sparse.]
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To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.
There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades.
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To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures.
Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock.
--Cook.
Wiktionary
placed at intervals amongst other things. v
(en-past of: intersperse)
Usage examples of "interspersed".
Large clumps of browned grass, interspersed with pale green stems, grew around the base of the empty stone pedestal in the square.
The treetops were every shade of green imaginable, interspersed every so often with one whose foliage was a brilliant rose pink.
Big Eyes repeated key phrases with sign language, and interspersed them with verbal signs that tightened up the long strings of symbolism to the few necessary.
Clarf Prime 'ported one major ship an hour tor the next twelve, interspersed with message tubes and "urgently required" cartons of equipment which had not been ready to leave when the mass migration began.
She went through a long series of stretchings and yawnings, interspersed with rather wild and vivid flashes.
The valley floor was interspersed with flat grasslands and some of the odd-looking thickets that in their season would bear edible berries.
Several large houses, with half dormers for sleeping lofts, were interspersed with small accommodations, scattered throughout the lodge-pole forestry.
There were three and four-story houses, all made into tenements to judge by the fire escapes, interspersed with concrete-block buildings that would house family-owned businesses of some sort.
Then his eyes were caught by the circles of destruction, so hideously apparent from the air, interspersed with untouched swaths where squally rain had drowned the Thread before it could reach the surface.
Ayrlyn leaned over from the saddle and studied the road and the interspersed patches of snow.
The man on the big horse was shouting questions that no one was answering, interspersed with demands that the others back up and get out of his way so he could fight.
It was like a strange music, one interspersed with the upraised voices of the workers as they exhorted one another.
Here, as in Italy, the fields of grain and vegetables were interspersed with fields of the bright-yellow colza—here called Raps, said Jörg Pfeifer.
Most of the noise was Spyros's rabid shouting, but some of it was Meli's loud weeping, and that was interspersed with violent slaps when he hit her.