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Example sentences for "intervening"

Lexicographically close words:
intervals; intervene; intervened; intervenes; intervenient; intervention; interventions; interventricular; intervertebral; interview
  1. In order to come out, the insect will have to pierce first the dome and then the paper, which follows without any intervening space.

  2. Full-grown Cats can find their way home, in spite of the distance and their complete ignorance of the intervening ground.

  3. This action would rob intervening fields of their accustomed water supply, and would be illegal.

  4. The twenty-eight miles intervening between Salem and Albany afford some fine views of the Cascade Range, Mount Hood being visible at a distance of seventy miles, and the nearer southern peaks in still bolder outline.

  5. Henceforward the scenery increases in interest every mile, the mountains becoming loftier and more precipitous, the rocky shores more rugged, and the intervening foliage more luxuriant.

  6. The intervening fragment of bone is isolated, and may be displaced.

  7. Each nerve-trunk as it leaves the skull or spinal canal carries with it a prolongation of each of these membranes and their intervening spaces.

  8. In overriding displacement, even the dense cortical bone intervening between the medullary canal of the two fragments is ultimately absorbed and the continuity of the medullary canal is reproduced.

  9. There is no beach or strand intervening between the houses and the sea, the former overlooking the latter, and protected from its wash by a breakwater buttress.

  10. At this moment the metallic clang of an old fashioned hand-bell sounded faintly down the hillside mellowed into comparative melodiousness by the intervening distance.

  11. What doings in Bell's Tower during this intervening time!

  12. The shadow of the intervening corner of the rock covered me, otherwise immediate detection would have been inevitable.

  13. Before the coal-heavers could grasp what was happening, the two men leapt across the intervening barge and gained the quay.

  14. In front and in the rear of the advancing German infantry the hail of shells descended like a giant twin portcullis, while the intervening space was thick with shrapnel.

  15. The intervening ground was all but covered when the gallant young officer fell.

  16. She gathered him up as she had done in the old days when he was a child at her breast; all the intervening years seemed blotted out.

  17. Across the intervening patch of darkness our glances met; the girl's dark lashes were lowered demurely, then raised again, and the boldness of my unfaltering gaze was rewarded by a smile.

  18. Crossing the intervening strip of sand, he stood before me.

  19. I dismounted behind the hill, tightened the saddle-girths, looked to rifle and cartridge touch, and then remounting rode slowly over the intervening ridge.

  20. And, we must not forget, Art progresses by slow degrees; much that is right in one age could not come in an earlier, before the intervening step.

  21. In the intervening hollow some stone steps lead to a dark gap in the wood, where is the fountain of St. Elizabeth under a grey archway with sculptured pillars and overgrown with ferns.

  22. And the château had been closed for the intervening time.

  23. He passed the road safely, ran across the intervening space, and disappeared in a little clump of fruit trees surrounding a deserted farmhouse.

  24. Much water had flowed under the bridges of Europe since that mad ride of the infantry in the farm wagons to face Schwarzenberg after their smashing and successful attacks upon Blücher, although the intervening time had been short.

  25. If I am right, your father puts his name down for one of them on his coming of age, and, with luck in the matter of intervening deaths, your son may end his days there.

  26. I don't for a moment suppose that the intervening hours were spent in the contemplation of death, judgment or the burden of undivulged crime.

  27. Riding, therefore, to the bottom of the slope, he spurred Thunderbolt to a sharp gait, and quickly covered the intervening space, which was hardly a fourth of a mile.

  28. When it seemed to the latter that he had passed the intervening distance, he drew his mustang to a walk, listening and peering through the gloom with all the power at his command.

  29. Very few minutes were required to pass over the intervening space, but while doing so Captain Shirril made clear several facts which needed explanation.

  30. A sudden change of direction--ended as soon as it began--whirled the noise as straight across the intervening space as if it had been fired by an arrow.

  31. Indeed," said Sir George Repington, on whose mind a new prospect was breaking, "and how do you pass your time during the intervening months?

  32. It will be seen that whenever one commutator segment passes out of contact with the brush, the formation of the arc will be prevented by the intervening insulating material coming in contact with the insulating material on the brush.

  33. In 244, C represents the commutator and intervening insulating material; B B, the brushes.

  34. That there might be several deposits of the boulder-clay with intervening strata, does not appear to have been suggested.

  35. And although Homo heidelbergensis is seen to be separated from his modern successors by great differences in form as well as a vast lapse of time, still the intervening period does provide intermediate forms to bridge the gulf.

  36. But how greatly had the situation changed during those eleven short intervening years!

  37. Once in four years there is a trip to the inauguration at Washington; lesser excursions occupy some of the intervening time.

  38. The English people are now satisfied to have Home Rule, but some intervening question might delay its final settlement.

  39. The intervening towns and villages are neat and sweet, and the people seem to be hard workers.

  40. You are now high enough to look over the tops of some of the intervening hills, and there away beyond, between a dip in the hills, you see a gleaming band of silver, the waters of the Channel.

  41. In the intervening years, however, one owner has added on a couple of rooms on one side, and another has put on two more and a pantry round the corner, and so on, till it is difficult to say exactly what type of dwelling it really is.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intervening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    interlocutory; intermediary; intermediate; intervening; mean; medial; median; mediating; mediatory; medium; middle