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# intersperse

«intersperse» in Mova's school dictionary: **To scatter or place things here and there among other things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (intersperses, interspersed, interspersing)

### meaning for a pupil

To scatter or place things here and there among other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intersperse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales jewels, flowers or songs are set among sand, grass or sections of a story, so the story is broken up with them

### examples

- Flowers were interspersed among the green bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intersperse/#x1)
- The story is interspersed with songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intersperse/#x2)
- Trees were interspersed with the tall grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intersperse/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «intersperse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intersperse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.