Example sentences for: intervened

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

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

  • To begin with, if governments at every level hadn't intervened, beaches everywhere might have been incorporated by the wealthy into Gatsbyesque estates, like those that denied most of the North Shore of Long Island to hoi polloi.

  • "I am writing," he said, "an 'as if,' a fiction, a logical construction of what could be, against which the future social reality can be compared in order to see what intervened to change society in the direction it did take."

  • But nothing they did before the West intervened justifies the 2,000 civilians killed by NATO's bombs.

  • The allies intervened only when nearly 2 million Kurdish refugees surged toward the Turkish and Iranian borders.


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