Example sentences for: intervening

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

  • In some cases, fusion of genes into the same polycistron has occurred following the loss of intervening genes oriented in the opposite direction (Figure 9).

  • Holbrooke does not waste a lot of time on the question of whether intervening in Bosnia was in our national "interest."

  • And at least two administrations (Ford, Carter) were all but paralyzed, and Congress was dead set against intervening anywhere.

  • No insult appears to have been intended, even though the message referred to England as “the lonely remoteness of your island, cut off from the world by intervening wastes of sea.”

  • Collocations dictionaries published in Russia for advanced L2 learners of Russian date back a quarter of a century or so and have developed a very high degree of variety and sophistication over the intervening years.


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