How to Use intercut in a Sentence

intercut

verb
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  • Sweet home videos of the couples were intercut with the PDA scenes as well.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But notes of hazelnut and oak intercut it with a smoky edge for a distinct taste.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Being able to intercut with the drama, but then show the band at its peak, was important.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Kimmel then showed footage of Trump and Pope Francis intercut with scenes of the president trying in vain to hold hands with the pope.
    — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • The video intercuts clips of Gosling practicing his moves in sweatpants and a backwards hat in a dance studio with footage from the finished film.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As was the case with Fox's 2016 live musical, the back-up plan called to use footage from Saturday's dress rehearsal and intercut it with live scenes.
    — Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2019
  • But adding to the scene's power was the choice to intercut clips of Max bonding with her friends from throughout the show while the song reaches its emotional climax.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The scenes are short, clipped, often intercutting between two lines of action.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Thus the editing proceeds throughout the project, as Vallée intercuts brief snippets of images that might later make sense.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 6 July 2018
  • Philippe intercuts that story with Shatner’s parallel recounting of the same tale in his series of one-man shows.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The documentary is full of behind-the-scenes clips of the band members intercut with snippets of fans trying to articulate what attracts them to the group.
    — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • The two main stories were intercut with the subtlety of someone flipping channels.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
  • The mounting orchestra is intercut with Harold Beane’s fuzz-heavy guitar.
    — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Being able to see the beginning of that relationship intercut with the possible end of it.
    — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 June 2018
  • Everyday life is at the center of the show and The Troubles are in the background, occasionally intercutting the action.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Rosefeldt attempts to inject a bit of the old break-up by intercutting among a few vignettes, but the effort feels perfunctory.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2017
  • Along the main street in Hirafu, a central village that shares a name with the area’s most popular ski resort, masses of glass walls intercut with clean lines of concrete and steel loom over the snowy landscape.
    — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Padilla intercuts the action and drama with scenes of a performance of an Israeli modern dance troupe rehearsing a show.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But in the corresponding music video, which intercuts band performance footage with scenes from the film, Body Count multitracks the vocals, coming on like an army.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Much of the film, which was shot in Arizona last summer and features Bible scriptures intercut throughout, centers on a gospel choir in brown robes singing traditional Christian hymns.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The title sequence of the film features a montage of imagery from Black Lives Matter protests and other recent news events intercut with Parks’ images from civil rights movement protests.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Bethesda The new launch date announcement trailer intercuts shots of space stations and massive castle-like spires on barren planets.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Her difficult public life is intercut with joyous scenes like that of her fruitful creative life, bringing viewers into her recording studio for the first time.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Some channels do history like a school teacher would: intercutting their talking head with old timey drawings and diagrams.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • To create one 90-second film loop, Kelly intercut archival and contemporary images to haunting effect.
    — Sophie Haigney Philip Cheung, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The film is awash in music: Daniel Hart’s evocative original compositions occasionally intercut with a dreamy pop tune.
    — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Poll’s challenges were technical, intercutting the dramatic scenes with musical moments, or cutting the film’s opening number with its great crescendo.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • My parents’ wedding videographer intercut a clip from kermit and Miss Piggy’s wedding into their service?? without asking???
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 9 Oct. 2019
  • His videos were intercut by rants about the political causes he was obsessed by—access to clean water, the degradation of the environment, social discrimination.
    — Anna Heyward, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
  • His words were intercut with documentary footage, which ranged from 20th-century newsreels to Cooper's own recent interview with Vanderbilt.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 17 June 2019

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