intersperse
verb (used with object)
to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things.
interspersion
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a word derived from
intersperse.
Example Sentences
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The saga prose is straightforward and business-like, the dialogue short and pithy, with considerable interspersion of proverbial phrase, but with, except in case of bad texts, very little obscurity.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The interspersion of some discords seems to imply serious differences of opinion between the parties to the treaty.
From Charles Dickens and Music by James T. Lightwood
There is effect in the manner in which the simple head-stones are planted together, with no separation of rails, no interspersion of pretending sarcophagi.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
The occasional interspersion of rhymes, and the more frequent winding up of a speech therewith—what purpose was this designed to answer?
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anna, or the Memoirs of a Welsh Heiress, interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob, is a kind of bad imitation of Miss Burney, with a catchpenny "interspersion" to suit the day.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
