interweave
Americanverb (used with object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
verb (used without object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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interweavesimple
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interweavessimple
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have interweavedperfect
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have interwovenperfect
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has interweavedperfect
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has interwovenperfect
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am interweavingprogressive
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are interweavingprogressive
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is interweavingprogressive
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have been interweavingperfect progressive
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has been interweavingperfect progressive
Past
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interweavedsimple
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interwovesimple
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had interweavedperfect
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had interwovenperfect
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was interweavingprogressive
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were interweavingprogressive
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had been interweavingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interweave
Example Sentences
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“I knew very early on I wanted all the movement to be created by the same hand, that violence and dance would interweave seamlessly throughout the piece,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"Nobody really has ever tried to interweave an actual plot story into a dogfight, and we were trying to do that."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The tight, tree-lined fairways interweave with a treasure trove of archaeological remnants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Bark scars on trees in Ma’amtagila territory interweave their people today with prior generations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Then she had braided her hair, using her hands to interweave the thick dark strands deftly, tying the end of the heavy plait with a leather strip.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
Mr. Spencer’s four marriages and three divorces barely merit a mention, yet his emotions are center stage as he interweaves his memories around Diana’s death with other scattered recollections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
His remix of John Summit’s “Crystallized feat. Inéz” has garnered praise, while “Fibonacci Pt. 2,” his latest in a set of math-inspired releases, interweaves the melodic with the heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
It interweaves the traditional Latin text of the Requiem Mass with the anti-war poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen, who was killed a week before the Armistice.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
In poetic prose, Earling interweaves factual accounts of Sacajewea’s life with a first-person narrative deeply rooted in the physicality of landscape and brutality of the times.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Scott takes real people, and real incidents, and with them he interweaves the story of the fortunes of make-believe people and make-believe incidents.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Club president Raj Khosla spoke about the "magnificent scenic beauty" and "uniqueness of a wonderful course" interweaved with monuments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Collins peppers the new concert with personal stories interweaved with ones about The Town Hall, which is celebrating its centennial this year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
When they conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all; Menelaus spoke succinctly, few but very sweet words, since he was not talkative, nor superfluous in speech, and was the younger.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
Dangers will be averted; bewildering mazes will show themselves to be interlaced and interweaved with mercy.
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Several times, I had to change my position quickly in order to avoid being caught among the great, waving tendrils which, lower down, interweaved like the meshes of a gigantic net.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson
In framing Steve McQueen’s historical depiction of Germany’s eight-month-long bombing campaign, cinematographer Yorick Le Saux beautifully interwove George’s emotional arc with the catastrophic enormity of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Mullins interwove perspectives from three young transgender people in Florida, Texas and Illinois, along with mental health providers, advocates and allies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
She was compiling ephemera from our family and Bill’s into a huge book, interweaving the two families’ histories in the way that their marriage interwove the present.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
Flynn simply — or, rather, complexly — interwove the narratives: Nick’s in the present, revealing more of his sins as he tracks the treasure-hunt clues, and Amy’s in the past, through her diary.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2014
Kira could see that it was intricately decorated with carved designs that interwove around it in complicated curves.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
The stripes are narrower and there are interwoven diagonal lines, but this is still very definitely a Real Betis shirt - one of the most recognisable designs in European football.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
“For consumers, we connect marketing, search, renting, touring, financing and closing into a single, coherent experience interwoven with professional workflows,‘’ CEO Jeremy Wacksman and Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Hofmann wrote in a letter to investors.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
In “Mutiny,” Mr. Scheiber makes his case by telling a series of interwoven stories about Americans who’ve found themselves part of the college-educated working class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Mr. Krivak suspensefully spaces out the events of the cave-in, interweaving them with the quiet drama of Ondro’s life as a survivor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
"She holds this precious story with great care and tells it with dignity, interweaving the history of transplant surgery seamlessly."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
Yet, it also points to a hopefulness that this intricate interweaving implicit in the real world can be understood.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
Modified trees are a connection interweaving generations of the region’s first people tightly as a cedar basket.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
They found the cleverness of their forebears’ music, with its fugues, its interweaving counterpoint, its layering upon layer of sounds, too academic and dry, rather like student exercises.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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