interpose
verb (used with object)
to place between; cause to intervene.
interposed
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past participleof interpose.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof interpose.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
interposeverb (used with object)to place between; cause to intervene.
Example Sentences
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“I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan and when I purposely interposed names they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki, from Tricky Nikki,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Such a note, seemingly interposed at random, echoes Whitman and DeFeo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Then a newsreel begins to play - it shows a montage of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, interposed with scenes of violence that marked the partition.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2022
Thao interposed himself between Floyd and bystanders, video showed, looking on as he struggled.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2020
“How well you read me, you witch!” interposed Mr. Rochester: “but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
