Example sentences for: intervened

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

  • Feuding Australian Aborigine women would sometimes square off and whack each other with yam sticks until somebody intervened.

  • You know, the professional pundit, who is supposed to know whether (and how) we should have intervened in Rwanda, who should win the Oscar for best cinematography this year, what revisions should be made to the method of GNP calculations, what concessions the baseball owners should accept, and so on.

  • In 1943 the Duke intervened in the investigation of the murder of Canadian multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes, a longtime benefactor of the Bahamas who gave his name to Nassau’s first airfield.

  • Stoltzfus, writing of the 2,000 Berlin women who marched down Rosenstrasse in 1943 to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands, sees that his case is something less than a study in pure virtue: Germans cared nothing for Jews unless self-interest intervened.

  • The NYT stuffs a related story on the U.S.-China WTO negotiations, which had stagnated before the Chinese prime minister intervened yesterday.


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