How to Use interpolate in a Sentence

interpolate

verb

• He smoothly interpolates fragments from other songs into his own.
• He interpolated a very critical comment in the discussion.
• And so a line can interpolate through two points but not three.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
• One way to get out of the jam -- just interpolate right away!
  — Anthony Cougar Miccio, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2021
• That just wouldn’t have crossed my brain, to try to interpolate that into a song.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
• Grande interpolates the melody in her verses with a saucy attitude.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2019
• So interpolating the song in different ways that people can party to it, dance to it, chill this summer.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
• Drake clearly took some inspiration from her, interpolating her flow and even adopting a few of her most quotable lines.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
• Many of the realists whose novels are being interpolated by this show, though, were obsessed with the present.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• There was a voice message from Daniel Garcia’s mom that was interpolated in a music video.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
• Thornton cleared his throat, and politely interpolated his thoughts.
  — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
• What hahahaspam did was interpolate between the frames, making the motion appear much more smooth.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2012
• The new song interpolates the Brandy and Monica classic, in which the women fight over a boy who’s not worth either of their time.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• This is not the first time that West has been sued for illegally sampling or interpolating other artist’s songs into his tracks.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2024
• Since the filter cuts out light, cameras must interpolate data coming from the sensor to fill in missing information.
  — PC Magazine, 20 Nov. 2025
• Kneecap the film interpolates the band’s (kind of) true-to-life ascent and the contemporary wave of the Irish language and culture revival.
  — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
• Jeremiah Fraites’ score beautifully melds with and interpolates these iconic songs.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
• Fiction offers the unique chance to interpolate old themes in new metaphors, reinvigorating crucial conversations bogged down by cliché.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Mar. 2022
• The song has been sampled or interpolated over 150 times, according to Whosampled.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
• Part of Ayers’s respect in the hip-hop community is derived from his willingness to work with the artists who’ve sampled and interpolated him.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
• In the lead-up to the song’s release, Halsey claimed that Spears gave her permission to interpolate her 2000 single of the same name for the song.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
• The cast is largely Japanese, with some American actors interpolated in scenes shot in this country.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
• The Stein and Thomson estates, however, refused permission to interpolate these new texts into the work.
  — Ryan Ebright, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The track interpolates Ennio Morricone’s theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
• With her new track of the same name, the 29-year-old singer interpolates Spears’ hit into a softer, acoustic context to drive home the message of life under a modern microscope.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 July 2024
• This may not be deathless prose, but Google’s AI, which works by interpolating new sentences to link sentences it is provided, seems to have captured something of the genre.
  — Stephen L. Carter, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
• The reader struggles, along with Vanessa, to make sense of what is happening, to interpolate, to see the truth, with so many false accounts, so many delusions, so many efforts to neaten or prettify.
  — Katie Roiphe, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Block model grades within the wireframe models were interpolated by inverse distance cubed (ID3).
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
• The new track interpolates part of Lamar’s anthemic 2015 song, which was co-produced by Pharrell and won two Grammy Awards.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2020
• In theory, that sounds like a fine way of interpolating the iconography of Jackson’s trilogy — the fortress of Isengard in particular — into an anime world.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2024