Vocabulary Word
Word: intervene
Definition: come between; interfere; Ex. intervened to prevent a fight; N. intervention
Definition: come between; interfere; Ex. intervened to prevent a fight; N. intervention
Sentences Containing 'intervene'
She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
But history must not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to them.
But causes of serious error here intervene: a plant, to be hybridised, must be castrated, and, what is often more important, must be secluded in order to prevent pollen being brought to it by insects from other plants.
It is also probable that each great period of subsidence would be interrupted by oscillations of level, and that slight climatical changes would intervene during such lengthy periods; and in these cases the inhabitants of the archipelago would migrate, and no closely consecutive record of their modifications could be preserved in any one formation.
For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable--they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness--and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.
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