interpolate
verb (used with object)
to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
had interpolated
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past perfectof interpolate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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This was the same Abdallah who, in acting as amanuensis to Mahomet, and writing down his revelations, had interpolated passages of his own, sometimes of a ludicrous nature.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
"But one would hardly call America a foreign country to an Englishwoman," one friend had interpolated at this point.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
"My study," she had interpolated, a little apprehensive lest for her private room he should use another word.
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
Eudosia had interpolated the word "hundred," quite innocently, for, as usually happens with those to whom money is new, her imagination ran ahead of her arithmetic.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
In the case of Russia—the country where the state, more than ordinarily artificial and ill-balanced, was correspondingly weak—Fate had interpolated a blood-stained page of red and white terror in the years 1906-08.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
