intersperse among

intersperse (something) among (something)

To incorporate or scatter something in or throughout something else. For the kitchen backsplash, I want to intersperse some of these sparkly gray blocks among the black and white ones.
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intersperse something among something

to place something among things at random. We interspersed a few chocolate dough nuts among all the plain ones. Some chocolate ones had been interspersed among the plain ones.
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of late 18th- and early 19th-century books to intersperse among the objects.
Room with a view: Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum's new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King's Library
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