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Etymology
Origin of interlope
1595–1605; probably back formation from interloper, equivalent to inter- + -loper ( see landloper)
Example Sentences
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Not here do human structures interlope The fir to rival, or the pine-tree's claim, The soul may revel in poetic flame Upon yon mountain's green and gentle slope.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.
From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. Riddle
Idle Hope And dire Remembrance interlope, To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.
From Poems of Coleridge by Arthur Symons
Idle hope And dire remembrance interlope To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.’
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville
Idle Hope, And dire Remembrance, interlope, And vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before: the spectre stalks behind.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
“And Her Mother Came Too,” a song in “Dancing Honeymoon,” prompted incidents where a dancer as mother kept interloping and stressed the work’s pervasive dynamics of odd numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
But announced several months after Beyoncé's win, some have seen it as a sign of discontent over her apparent interloping on the country-music space.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
Sophisticated, experienced firms like Boston Beer Company hardly know what to do about the now-struggling hard-seltzer market, but Happy Dad and its interloping founders are thriving.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
It releases the Black online community from the stress of the interloping gaze from non-Black users, readjusting the idea of what Black performativity is online.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2023
We know not certainly that Mr. Bennett's injuries originated in that source; though we suspect as much from the significant stories which he tells of interloping foreigners on the pension list in Ceylon.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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