interweave
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
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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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See Examples For:
"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
Ms. Crawford interweaves her endearing characters’ voices in wonderful ways and includes a glossary of their “Glesga patter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The Hack is a seven-part series that interweaves two real-life stories.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
At his best, Stanford interweaves vivid prose, a reverence for nature and a seasoned Angeleno’s eye for what makes this city unique.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
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
Into exposition of ranching on the Gila, he interweaves talk on Arabian afreets, Stevenson's philosophy of adventure, and German imperialism.
From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)
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
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 Freeman, John
Dangers will be averted; bewildering mazes will show themselves to be interlaced and interweaved with mercy.
From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
There was a triangular pack or trinity of stray dogs listlessly wiping snouts in whatever might possibly be edible as they interweaved around pedestrians' feet.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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
The way he interpreted it, and interwove it with his jazz background, ensured that his work would contain, like Ellington’s, “the sound of our experience, the sound of the Negro experience.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
But even more significant to me was how you also interwove your own personal life into the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
It is not all doom, though: to temper the nonchalance of the majority of its lyrics, the band interwove a love story, one that ends positively.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2015
Kira could see that it was intricately decorated with carved designs that interwove around it in complicated curves.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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
The posts include direct-to-the-camera appeals, with personal details interwoven into messages of support for Steyer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Though the film runs nearly 2 1/2 hours, it’s too full of fascination and involving, freely interwoven human drama to ever feel indulgent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as he began to attend to them.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
"She holds this precious story with great care and tells it with dignity, interweaving the history of transplant surgery seamlessly."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
It was with my editor, Damian Rodriguez, a process of interweaving and braiding those three strands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
Williams’ first show proved to be an ambitious endeavor, interweaving the luxury and sophistication of high fashion with the pulsating energy and broad appeal of pop culture and entertainment.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
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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