interweave
Americanverb (used with object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
verb (used without object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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interweavesimple
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interweavessimple
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have interweavedperfect
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have interwovenperfect
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has interweavedperfect
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has interwovenperfect
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am interweavingprogressive
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are interweavingprogressive
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is interweavingprogressive
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have been interweavingperfect progressive
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has been interweavingperfect progressive
Past
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interweavedsimple
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interwovesimple
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had interweavedperfect
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had interwovenperfect
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was interweavingprogressive
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were interweavingprogressive
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had been interweavingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interweave
Example Sentences
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"Nobody really has ever tried to interweave an actual plot story into a dogfight, and we were trying to do that."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The tight, tree-lined fairways interweave with a treasure trove of archaeological remnants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
“There’s something very fundamental in textile work with stringing things together. Using a ribbon to interweave a bunch of washers is such a nice example.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
“You could have the ability to interweave infrared imagery as well.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 14, 2022
The troubling interweave of class and race appeared to him in nearly every discussion.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
His remix of John Summit’s “Crystallized feat. Inéz” has garnered praise, while “Fibonacci Pt. 2,” his latest in a set of math-inspired releases, interweaves the melodic with the heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Each episode interweaves multiple narratives about the human impact of the attacks and its aftermath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Costa, working in a mode that owes something to the essay documentaries of Chris Marker, interweaves elements of her family history with the recent history of Brazil.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
It interweaves the poetry of Wilfred Owen with the words of the Requiem Mass to create a deeply moving and powerful work.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
With these fixed characters, which form the most delightful ingredients of the Fiabe, Gozzi interweaves a fairy-tale, abounding in magic, flights of capricious fancy, marvels, transformations, perilous adventures.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Club president Raj Khosla spoke about the "magnificent scenic beauty" and "uniqueness of a wonderful course" interweaved with monuments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Collins peppers the new concert with personal stories interweaved with ones about The Town Hall, which is celebrating its centennial this year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
Several times, I had to change my position quickly in order to avoid being caught among the great, waving tendrils which, lower down, interweaved like the meshes of a gigantic net.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Robert Watson
Her fingers interweaved with his, her warm little palm stroked the rough back of his hand.
From The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood
Then when Spring's rain and sun together trod And interweaved swift steps the meadow through, Old rites revived; they bore the shapen god With green stalks and first-budded boughs, and drew Together youth and age.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
In framing Steve McQueen’s historical depiction of Germany’s eight-month-long bombing campaign, cinematographer Yorick Le Saux beautifully interwove George’s emotional arc with the catastrophic enormity of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Mullins interwove perspectives from three young transgender people in Florida, Texas and Illinois, along with mental health providers, advocates and allies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Amid interviews with union leaders and historical footage of strikes, he interwove more poetic, decontextualized scenes of women gazing at birds overhead, or walking blindfolded through a bamboo forest.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015
Flynn simply — or, rather, complexly — interwove the narratives: Nick’s in the present, revealing more of his sins as he tracks the treasure-hunt clues, and Amy’s in the past, through her diary.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2014
Kira could see that it was intricately decorated with carved designs that interwove around it in complicated curves.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
Arcade’s approach underscores how tightly interwoven technology and security and compliance can be, especially when it comes to complex areas such as AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
“For consumers, we connect marketing, search, renting, touring, financing and closing into a single, coherent experience interwoven with professional workflows,‘’ CEO Jeremy Wacksman and Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Hofmann wrote in a letter to investors.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
It was a striking prelude to "Body to Body", the album's first full track, interwoven with Korea's most iconic folk song and the album's namesake, Arirang.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
My way is blocked by hard, thin, interwoven twigs.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Palantir’s involvement is just one of countless instances across U.S. history interweaving industry and national defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
A four-star review from The FT summarised the play as "interweaving serious questions with crisply funny dialogue and combining the absurd with the profound".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
It was with my editor, Damian Rodriguez, a process of interweaving and braiding those three strands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
Modified trees are a connection interweaving generations of the region’s first people tightly as a cedar basket.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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