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
I wish Knitel had more opportunity to interweave Maggie’s ruminations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
Bark scars on trees in Ma’amtagila territory interweave their people today with prior generations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Then she had braided her hair, using her hands to interweave the thick dark strands deftly, tying the end of the heavy plait with a leather strip.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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
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
In poetic prose, Earling interweaves factual accounts of Sacajewea’s life with a first-person narrative deeply rooted in the physicality of landscape and brutality of the times.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Nor less Maestro Giorgio shines With madre-perl and golden lines Of arabesques, and interweaves His birds and fruits and flowers and leaves About some landscape, shaded brown, With olive tints on rock and town.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I preferred walking; and though my shoes and the hem of my gown were covered with prickles and thorns, which interweaved themselves in an extraordinary manner through a satin dress, I enjoyed the walk amazingly.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Miss Emma Roberts
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
That Goddess who guards the castles in topmost parts of the towns herself fashioned the car, scudding with lightest of winds, uniting the interweaved pines unto the curving keel.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Like them, Mr. Evans, who worked at the Carnegie Corporation before becoming president of the philanthropic Charles H. Revson Foundation, interwove his cosmopolitan worldview with his Southern roots.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Strayed's memoir made for a tricky adaptation, as she interwove her experiences on the trail with recollections of the life that got her there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014
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
With 24 main characters interwoven around the town of Nashville, home of country music and intersecting political undercurrents, the film tries to make sense of the chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
On such tracks as “Frost Bloom” and “Inward Loop” the prepared elements are interwoven into the same phrases, creating a compelling distinction between them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
A helmet of some interwoven metal that fits close to my head.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
The beetles rear and feed their young under the bark of spruce trees in complex webs of interweaving tunnels called galleries.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
Yet, it also points to a hopefulness that this intricate interweaving implicit in the real world can be understood.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
Emma Portner, the work’s choreographer, has spent her career interweaving genres and disciplines.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
They were in the orchard now, in the dense interweaving of orange trees, and Richard felt a strangeness overcome him.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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