Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: intervening
IPA transcription: [,ɪntɚv'inɪŋ]
Pronunciations of intervening
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: intervening
    Meaning: occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"
Usage examples
  • No agent or influence intervening, a thing may yet be removed a long way from gratification.
  • The intervening Thursday was Thanksgiving Day; most of the boys had gone home; the school had holiday.
  • Neither does it appear from what matter a body can be daily generated large enough to fill the intervening hemisphere.
  • Before the German could face about, Lanyard, moving almost noiselessly in his bare feet, had covered more than half the intervening space.
  • We overlook the fact that in growth there is ground to be covered between an initial stage of process and the completing period; that there is something intervening.
  • In the midst of the intervening twilight, however, before I entered what appeared to be the darkest portion of the forest, I saw a country maiden coming towards me from its very depths.
  • It is impossible, and even undesirable, to have a garden in blossom all over, and groups of flower-beauty are all the more enjoyable for being more or less isolated by stretches of intervening greenery.
  • Now no local movement of a body can be instantaneous, as everything that moves from one place to another must pass through the intervening space before reaching the end: whereas the diffusion of light is instantaneous.
  • During the intervening years since the South African campaign he had risen by fairly rapid stages to Inspector-General of the Cavalry in India--a situation which he handled with great skill for three years--then Major General, and Lieutenant General.
  • From their remote position, and the difficult nature of the intervening country, they thought themselves safe; but a band of Iroquois, marching on snow-shoes a distance of twenty days' journey northward from the St. Lawrence, fell upon one of their camps in the winter, and made a general butchery of the inmates.
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