A detachment was sent to intercept them, which was attacked and driven back.
Learning that twelve hundred regular troops were hastening to the rescue of the besieged, he despatched a force to intercept them.
As to the Pennsylvania levies, they deserted in such numbers that guards were stationed on the roads and ferries to intercept them.
Hathorn determined to intercept them there, and disposed his men accordingly.
He had been searching for the Rangers to intercept them, and the firing was a sure guide.
As he caught sight of the Americans, Mawhood thought that they must be a party of fugitives, and hastened to intercept them; but he was soon undeceived.
The foremost of the pursuers did not make direct for the Zulus, but for a point lying between the latter and the river, so as to intercept them.
As a matter of fact, the Makalaka Chief had again underestimated the marching capacity of the Zulus, and had not come far enough along the foot of the mountain range to the south-west, to intercept them.
A large Balotsi impi had been sent to intercept them.
I have sent out skulking parties some distance from the sentries in the night, to lie still in the bushes to intercept them; but the flies are so plenty, our people can't bear them.
Admiral Durell had come too late to intercept them, catching but three stragglers that had lagged behind the rest.
Their intention becoming apparent to continue in our direction, we climbed up to intercept them, and a rough scramble it was.
We tried to intercept them; but a ravine divided us.
One of the bears crossed the snow drift, up which we were pursuing our way to intercept them, about one hundred and fifty yards ahead of us.
Following Subhan, I advanced to intercept them, and gained an eminence overlooking their position which was in a grassy hollow.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercept them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
