intersperse

CEFRC1

/ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To place things among other things at intervals.
02
verb
Extra detail
To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something.

Examples

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To scatter or insert something into or among other things.
To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other.

In context

Wildflowers began to intersperse the lawn.
Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
When writing, I intersperse details.

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For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images, page 76
Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458
Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
1985, Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps, page 46
Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116

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From Latin interspergō, interspersus.