Sample Sentences forinterpose (editor-reviewed)
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She interposed herself between them before someone threw a punch.interposed = inserted
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They have interposed themselves on the side of our enemy.
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Sometimes a few other netters would interpose comments, but Peter and Val would usually ignore them or change their own comments only slightly to accommodate what had been said. (source)interpose = insert
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He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats. (source)
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"Or she." Interposed Hermione. (source)Interposed = inserted (a comment)
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The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance. (source)interposed = came (were between)
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The judge interposed. He spoke with the authority that a lifetime in the courts had given him. He said... (source)interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
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We put Invincible to seaward of their surface groups as though she's heading home and interpose her on October's course.† (source)
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Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? (source)interposition = insertionstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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One of them steps forward slightly, interposing himself between Y.T. and the nearest protochick.† (source)
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Then she tentatively puts out her left foot and hand, ANNIE interposes her own hand, and at the contact HELEN jerks hers in.† (source)
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Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste; but, till I come again, No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.† (source)
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He concluded with declaring to Mr Allworthy, that he should have long since informed him of this matter, had not Mr Blifil, by the most earnest interpositions, prevented him.† (source)
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"No, you don't," interposed Tom quickly. (source)interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
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I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us.† (source)
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We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. (source)interposition = involvement (insertion between other parties)
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