Example sentences for: interlocking

How can you use “interlocking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He can write sharp, funny spiels and interlocking monologues in which people misrepresent themselves but somehow--miraculously--communicate their essence.

  • If there is any justification for submerging them, then it must be that there is a semantic category of chain that suggests `two-dimensional interlacing' (in contrast to linear interlocking), another that suggests the notion of `interconnected sequence' (which would take care of chain-smoker, chain reaction, chain-stitch , etc.), and other describable semantic reflexes.

  • He fell in with the Cubists, whose reverence for Cézanne's Formalist innovations--depicting landscape and figures with interlocking planes--he shared.

  • This proved particularly convenient for the Caribou Inuit practice of co-marriage: two couples would exchange sexual partners, not in a casual way, but as a real alternate marriage, strengthening ties between two interlocking families.

  • There are also more sophisticated, interlocking parodies, as when grim-faced NORAD radar operators tune in Jerry Springer and find Seth and Dr. Evil in the middle of a show called "My Father Is Evil and Wants To Take Over the World"--a segment that degenerates into bleeping and fisticuffs when the archvillain rushes an indignant Klansman.


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