How to Use interpose in a Sentence

interpose

verb
  • Nathan sought to interpose himself in sensitive deals despite his lack of experience.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Objects interposed between subjects and the camera hint at the quest for clarity through the intervening years.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The short-haired friend interposed herself on the bench between the twenty-three-year-old woman and the thirty-five-year-old man, putting her arm around the former and totally ignoring the latter.
    Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • An electrolyte—commonly a polymer or ceramic—interposed between the fuel and oxidizer helps shuttle ions within the fuel cell.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2016
  • Reading more non-fiction like Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto reminded me how many forms books can takes with its short vignettes interposed with images.
    Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The music video interposes clips of a nation on fire—thieves and looters running rampant, protesters spitting in cops’ faces—with footage of Aldean and his band playing in front of a courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, vowing to deliver justice.
    Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Peasant growers’ resistance to these operations fueled the Shining Path insurgency by providing recruits and creating an opening for the guerrillas to interpose themselves between the farmers and the police.
    Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

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