Menendez next intercepted Ribault and the remnant of his men, and by similar treachery accomplished their destruction, refusing an offer of one hundred thousand ducats to spare their lives.
One was convicted of arson, another of robbing the United States mail, when the mail was intercepted with a view of capturing letters from the Federal officers in the western counties to the authorities at the capital.
Come with me," whispered the tall girl with the parasol, to Theron; and he found himself pushing along in her wake until they intercepted the priest just outside the bedroom door.
The letter was intercepted by a British cruiser; and the alarm caused by these vast designs only served to spur on our forces to efforts which cost Tippoo his life and the French most of their Indian settlements.
After gaining precious news as to Melas' movements from an intercepted despatch, Bonaparte left Milan on June 9th, and proceeded to Stradella.
At length an old man, tired and out of breath, came panting along; one whom Clary knew, and springing into the road she interceptedhis path.
But they were not destined to fence that night, for on their way across the hall the Duke's own servant intercepted them.
The Marquise, who had intercepted it, shrugged her shoulders.
A month after the evening on which he had interceptedand read Odette's letter to Forcheville, Swann went to a dinner which the Verdurins were giving in the Bois.
That message could have been interceptedby the pirates!
A short time after this incident he radioed to St. George and weintercepted the beam.
More than once during the last day or two Audrey had innocently intercepted those strange, searching glances, and they vaguely disturbed her.
Michael was slightly short-sighted, and a crowd of people intercepted his view, and he could not at once make his way through them.
She lost her gay fluency, and hesitated for a word now and then; and when they left the lake and walked towards the tennis-ground, and Cyril intercepted them, she gave him an appealing look to draw him to her side.
But ere those vessels could put out to sea, the vigorous measures of the Saxon King had already intercepted the retreat of the vessels.
He led them in a circuit behind both armies, but being intercepted by a new body, coming from the pastures of Hertfordshire to the help of Godwin, he was compelled to take the bold and desperate resort of entering the city gates.
These letters were so necessary to Murray, that he alleges them, as the reason of the queen's imprisonment, though he imprisoned her on the 16th, and pretended not to have intercepted the letters before the 20th of June.
They allow, that the invaders may be intercepted at sea, or that, if they land, they may be defeated by our native troops.
When the main column was wheeled, Grant's and Lewis' companies had proceeded so far in advance, that a large body of the enemy rushed down from both sides of the ravine, and intercepted them.
They were intercepted by the Indians, and nearly all literally, cut to pieces.
A few days afterwards a man was intercepted wandering off to Shakka, bearing a letter from Khaled to Madibbo, in which he told him to be prepared to meet him shortly, in order to aid him in his enterprise.
The Arab letter-carrier wasintercepted and thrown into chains, and of course the occasion was taken advantage of to spread far and wide the story that the Mahdi had discovered this plot by direct inspiration from the Prophet.
Pesello of Florence, and Pesellino his son, whom, if we believe Vasari, shortness of life alone intercepted from superior excellence.
The Indians having now collected to a considerable number, observing his helpless situation singled off from the rest of the fleet, intercepted him and killed and took prisoners the whole crew.
The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle interceptedbetween such point and the horizon.
Meridian ~, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian.
Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star, in an oblique sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the horizon with a star.
One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc.
The second occurred at a ravine near Neches river, where they were intercepted in their retreat.
The snares had strangled three hares; the steel traps had caught five muskrats, which are very good eating in spite of their appearance; the net had intercepted a number of pickerel, suckers, and river whitefish.
In the short interval that had elapsed, the Indians had interceptedtheir women, unpacked their baggage, and arrayed themselves in their finest dress of ceremony.
Drake intercepted the stream of gold with which Philip was enabled to equip his armadas and thus performed a marked strategic service for England.
Edward rushed forward to interfere between the combatants, but the prostrate bulk of the Laird of Killancureit, over which he stumbled, intercepted his passage.
As he left the hotel, Anderson found himselfintercepted by Delaine in the garden, and paused at once to give him the latest news.
But Lady Merton was intercepted midway by a tall man, quite unknown to Delaine.
In 1775 a letter to Washington from his friend Benjamin Harrison was intercepted by the British, and at once printed broadcast in the newspapers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercepted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
