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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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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
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
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
Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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
The game closed with one familiar sight for the Lakers — the home fans leaving while interloping Lakers fans chanted for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
The first crop of alfalfa, shot through with foxtails, must be cut without delay and fed into the silos before the beards of the interloping growth could harden.
From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory
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