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
Solar flares arise within the sun’s roiling soup of plasma when charged particles thrash around one another to form intense magnetic field lines that can tangle and interweave.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 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
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
Lee interweaves her time-travel narrative with explorations of the “inexplicable connections through time and space, the intrinsic cost of sacrifice, and the infinite metaphysical paradox of loving and letting go.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
The martins build their nests of clay In rows beneath the eaves; The silvery lichens, moss, and hair The chaffinch interweaves.
From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham
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 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
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
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
Walkways were blocked on the south side of the stadium as Eagles fans and Kansas City fans interwove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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
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
Something significant had happened last night, a thread that interwove between her, the Shetani, and that strange feeling in her feet, but she couldn’t understand the connection.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Experts interviewed by AFP said Balogun's citizenship story is an outlier in the world of football, but that it nevertheless is an example of how migration is increasingly interwoven into the sport.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 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
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
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr. Krivak suspensefully spaces out the events of the cave-in, interweaving them with the quiet drama of Ondro’s life as a survivor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
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
Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers, of which she had found a store in a drawer in the attic.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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