interject
- to insert between other things: to interject a clarification of a previous statement.
- Obsolete. to come between.
Origin of interject
Synonyms for interject
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insert, intrude, ingrain, interpose, interpolate, add, insinuate, inject, splice, infuse, import, implant, include, introduce, infiltrate, intersperse, intercalate, parenthesizeExamples from the Web for interject
Contemporary Examples of interject
“Let me finish, Mitt,” he said when the former Massachusetts governor tried to interject.
She raised her hand when she wanted to interject, looking like a kid wanting to be called on in class.
"If I may interject, Judge, they find YOU difficult and challenging, more than your colleagues," Graham countered.
Historical Examples of interject
"It isn't only Ronny, you know," Freddie hastened to interject.
Jill the RecklessP. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Their function was to interject comical comments from time to time.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
Here I must interject that such a statement is somewhat sweeping.
Mental EfficiencyArnold Bennett
At this point Dick Bissell undertook to interject some of his humor into the situation.
Sube CaneEdward Bellamy Partridge
How absurd, we will interject, is the saying: "Love me, love my dog."
Plum PuddingChristopher Morley
interject
- to interpose abruptly or sharply; interrupt with; throw inshe interjected clever remarks
- archaic to come between; interpose
Word Origin for interject
Word Origin and History for interject
1570s, back-formation from interjection or else from Latin interiectus, past participle of intericere "to throw between, insert, interject" (see interjection). Related: Interjected; interjecting.