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Example sentences for "intervenes"

Lexicographically close words:
intervale; intervales; intervals; intervene; intervened; intervenient; intervening; intervention; interventions; interventricular
  1. King's Proctor intervenes with statement of Royal interest in plaintiff.

  2. An officer intervenes with the remark: "You can't have that; this is a pickle day.

  3. Between Number 2 and the Chalk Number 1, there usually intervenes a breccia of broken flints.

  4. Only the swift city-creek intervenes between this square and Kimball's, which is encompassed by a similar wall.

  5. Now, in Angora rabbits and long-tailed fowl the epidermal organ continues its embryonic growth indefinitely; the something that intervenes to stop growth is absent.

  6. Similarly the young feathers of birds grow continuously until something intervenes that stops the growth and dries up the sheath.

  7. It is with reference to such affairs that thought is derivative; it is with reference to them that it intervenes or mediates.

  8. The actual junction, however, of the lacustrine and granitic beds is rarely seen, as a small valley usually intervenes between them.

  9. Between the two masses there intervenes a bed of indurated clay, traversed with veins of salt.

  10. Between the superficial covering of vegetable mould and the subjacent rock there usually intervenes in every district a deposit of loose gravel, sand, and mud, to which the name of alluvium has been applied.

  11. She has raised herself on tiptoe, and is sending a look of such agonised entreaty down the hall as, one would think, must penetrate even the mass of shifting, buzzing humanity that intervenes between her and its object.

  12. At the end of the month that intervenes between the arrival of the Hartleys' invitation and the fulfilment of its promise, that cause is exactly where it was.

  13. After all, what do you mean when you speak of this free creation of the scientific fact and when you take as example the astronomer who intervenes actively in the phenomenon of the eclipse by bringing his clock?

  14. Take an entirely different example, where intervenes especially the complexity of the causes.

  15. This remains: the scientist intervenes actively in choosing the facts worth observing.

  16. A woody and hilly region intervenes between the heads of the two rivers, and forms the water-shed of their streams.

  17. Objects appear much nearer than they are in reality, because they are more distinctly visible, and also because nothing intervenes between them and the observer.

  18. The hatchet intervenes between the labor that makes it and the firewood it will cut, while the wood acts directly on the man and keeps him warm.

  19. Between the swampy coast belt and the mountains intervenes a zone of very irregular hill country, of which the average height above the sea-level is about one thousand feet, with occasional peaks rising to five or six thousand feet or more.

  20. If any swampy ground or other obstruction intervenes between their camp and the enemy's village, a path is made through or over it to facilitate retreat to the boats.

  21. The bistoury is next to be carried backwards through the stricture till it enters that part of the urethra (usually dilated in such cases) which intervenes between the seat of obstruction and the neck of the bladder.

  22. When we raise the arms from the side and percuss the thorax between the folds of the axillae, where the serratus magnus muscle alone intervenes between the ribs and the skin, the pulmonic sound will answer clearly.

  23. The whole stretch of the Pacific slope which intervenes between Alaska and California, part of which is now represented by the States of Washington and Oregon and part by British Columbia, was then known generally as "Oregon.

  24. The long promontory, over four miles in length, that intervenes between the creek and the sea is Roseland.

  25. Between Ludgvan and Perran-uthnoe intervenes the parish of S.

  26. A lofty range of mountains intervenes directly before us to make our advance in that direction impracticable.

  27. One-third of the complete circle of the globe separates the Imperial capital from the capital of the Pacific Province, but no land intervenes which is not British, and the whole distance is under the shadow of the one national flag.

  28. As soon as we know that B intervenes between A and C, we also know that if there be cases in which the sequence of A and C does not hold, these are most likely to be found by studying the effects or the conditions of the phenomenon B.

  29. It intervenes in education, as the science and the conscience and the entire personality of the teacher.

  30. Mordred is not the original lover, but he represents him; and between that original lover and Lancelot there intervenes a period in which Guinevere's lapse from virtue was smoothed over, and partially forgotten.

  31. It must be apparent to any careful reader that, in his view, the Lady of the Lake is connected rather with Arthur than with Lancelot; whenever she intervenes in the story it is to aid the former, rather than the latter.

  32. Of these the primary signification of the first was a boy or youth, and of the second that period of life which intervenes between childhood and manhood.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intervenes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.